Like almost everything else from the West, the Romantic Revolution arrived late in Russia.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

We are all copy cats. The only original 'thing' is God, And "him", hell, most of us know as little as we know cats.

You look at that movie [Dude, Where's My Car?] now, and you know exactly when it was made. And that's what kids were like then.

Insecurity is just something that's there all the time. I've never been crippled by it.

Forgiveness is abandoning your right to revenge.

I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

We are hidden in ourselves, like a truth hidden in isolated facts. When we know that this One in us is One in all, then our truth is revealed.

I made a living out of being a class clown

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.