In actual life, every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.

Authorship is, according to the spirit in which it is pursued, an infamy, a pastime, a day-labor, a handicraft, an art, a science, a virtue.

Literature is the immortality of speech.

That which exists in nature is a something purely individual and particular. Art, on the contrary, is essentially destined to manifest the general.

The thinker requires exactly the same light as the painter, clear, without direct sunshine, or blinding reflection, and, where possible, from above.

It is at night when sleep like the outgoing sea leaves you dry and cold and the morning light arrives like a small punishment.

You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways--but it doesn't hurt as much when you're right.

I would stay in bed and get an extra 10 minutes sleep

If apple is the language of the future, then art must be the core.

When I started working with mirrors, it seemed to be the perfect material to stand in for that waiting.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

When I started on Wall Street, there was pretty good diversity in those junior ranks. And you know what? It hasn't made it to the top.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.