Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

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.

my master is the same as godwhen he thumps with his handpeople bring us hamburg steaksat any eating stand "pete s holiday

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

It is a well-known experience that the only truly enjoyable and profitable way of studying mathematics is the method of "filling in details" by one's own efforts.

It's easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

I was a bit of a sleeper-inner.

What does he do, Clarice? What is the first and principal thing he does, what need does he serve by killing? He covets. How do we begin to covet? We begin by coveting what we see every day.

I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.