Original artistic invention demands that even the inventor be surprised.

The uncut sheets of colored glass are really seductive, awesome, and unarguably lovely things. Naturally, the temptation to cut and damage all that pristine beauty is too much for me to resist.

Preconceptions and knowledge really only get you to the edge of where creativity begins. Then intuition and faith take over, hopefully.

It's important to discuss ideas but it's more important to surrender control and preconceptions.

Loving someone is very different from the heady feeling of being "in love, " which is, frankly, just temporary insanity.

If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue. My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.

Hard work, courage and commitment - these are the key elements for success.

Success as I see it is a result, not a goal.

We know what we got, and we don't care whether you know it or not.

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.