If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

When people have poor confidence in the future, you can be confident of a poor future.

My time has not yet come.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

The art of plucking the goose without making it cry out has been developed to a high state of perfection at the hands of the war makers.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy.

I asked all through third, fourth and fifth grade, when they were asking kids to be in the band, to be in the school band. But they wouldn't let me do it.

THE most widespread form of child abuse in the United States is parents sending children to the government to be educated.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.