Inventing is a skill that some people have and some people don't. But you can learn how to invent.

To be an inventor, you have to be willing to live with a sense of uncertainty, to work in this darkness and grope towards an answer, to put up with anxiety about whether there is an answer.

You have to have the will not to jump at the first solution, because the really elegant solution might be right around the corner.

I think a lot of developments start with the desire of the developer to get what he really wants so that he can use it. It's not just the technical fascination or the business opportunity.

My dog hasn't said a word all day, he must have a lot on his mind

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.

It is one thing to say that the dwelling has symbolic and cosmological aspects... and another to say that it has been erected for ritual purposes and is neither shelter nor dwelling but a temple.

I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.

I don't at all care who's on the right or left or in the center. Even though we use them, even though I use them myself, these expressions have lost all meaning.

What is really momentous and all-important with us is the present, by which the future is shaped and colored.

The thinnest people on the planet are those who eat the most carbohydrates.

I started in theatre, and for me, it was all about transformation. You transform into the character that you're playing.

Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.