Never, ever, work for bad people

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

You can be cautious or you can be creative, but there’s no such thing as a Cautious Creative.

To create great work, here's how you must spend your time: 1% Inspiration 9% Perspiration 90% Justification

The more creative you are the more trouble you're in. You have to be courageous!

Advertising is poison gas. It should bring tears to your eyes, unhinge your nervous system and knock you out.

Nothing comes from nothing. You must continuously feed the inner beast that sparks and inspires.

Creativity can solve almost any problem.

Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

Most people work at keeping their job, rather than doing a good job. If you're the former, you're leading a meaningless life. If you're the latter, keep up the good work.

In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

Happiness too is inevitable.

Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left.

The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

I'm always trying to be a good ambassador for my country.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.

Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.