Life is creation - self and circumstances, the raw material.

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

A happy childhood is perhaps the most-fortunate gift in life.

The difference between you and me is that you think to live and I live to think.

Every thought vibrates through the universe.

Men would always rather be made love to than talked at.

Suddenly a mist of green on the trees, as quiet as thought.

The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

Quotations are feeble; you always regret making them.

Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms.

Real speech can only come from complete silence. Incomplete silence is as fussy as deliberate conversation.

When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

Even in the heat of a middlegame battle the master still has to bear in mind the outlines of a possible future ending.

Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied in every bond issue is a false promise.

You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be.

Keep your head down, work hard, and don't ever believe your own hype, because... you just keep working.

Good ideas come from bad ideas, but only if there are enough of them.

We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.