It is personality with a penny's worth of talent. Error which chances to rise above the commonplace.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

You can't comfort the afflicted without afflicting the comfortable.

When a woman miscarries, the experience of the father is often forgotten. But men grieve pregnancy loss too...

One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.

I do believe at the end of the night when you're with your family, the character gets hung up on the door like a coat, and is there to be taken on the next morning.

If I upset some notions and went against established rules, that wasn't part of what I wanted to do. It wasn't my goal.

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that.

Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.

The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings.

Art is useful. Through art we can start building a world that works differently.