Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a difference.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.

If you are dissatisfied with the way the world works, it is because your heart is prompting you to change it.

One of the more noble things the Oscars can do is pay attention to movies no one knows about. Blockbusters don't need much help.

I was raised Catholic until I was old enough to say no.

I may have been a Wayward, but my way was full of people who loved me. They were the only way I knew

Of all my books, I find only a few indispensible.

Tried to put shame in my game to make a name, I'mma put it on a bullet...put it in your brain.

Here's a little tip for you. If you don't like being called a murderer, don't kill people.

Sanctions against such country as Russia are unlikely to be effective.