No work of art is ever completed, it is only abandoned.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

One thing I've learned: we don't stumble accidentally into an amazing life. It takes decision, a commitment to consistently work on ourselves.

Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him.(Saadi)

It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

The moment of birth is a miracle .

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

I used to like girls with nice hands and legs, but now, as long as she loves me and doesn't leave me, that would be fine.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

These feet have walked ten thousand miles working for white folks and another ten thousand keeping up with colored.

It has been said of dreams that they are a 'controlled psychosis,' or, put another way, a psychosis is a dream breaking through during waking hours.