If you are able to state a problem - any problem - and if it is important enough, then the problem can be solved.

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.

Anything worth doing is worth doing to excess.

We live in a world changing so rapidly that what we mean frequently by common sense is doing the thing that would have been right last year.

Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.

A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.

Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.

Any problem can be solved as long as it is stated properly.

You must expect failure after failure after failure before you succeed.

Death defeats us in the end. But our children are our revenge against it.

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

In order to drill into young men the need to stay alert and stay alive, I used to punish offenders with my fists, boots and rifle butt, and with stockade time.

1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

Ibsen, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and Beckett to me are the most revolutionary.

I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.

I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.