Originality houses many rooms, and the views from the windows are all different.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The poet is at the edge of our consciousness of the world, finding beyond the suspected nothingness which we imagine limits our perception another acre or so of being worth our venturing upon.

Art is always the replacement of indifference by attention.

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage, the show belongs to the puppet.

In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head.

A work of art is a form that articulates forces, making them intelligible.

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding.

I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.

With trust in God, we can triumph in times of troubles.

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!

There will be plenty of other problems in the future. This is as good a time as any to get ahead of them.

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

I'm a bloody fun-seeker. Whatever the role is, I'll find a way to deliver the line that is confounding.

when you start to bore yourself and others, that's when you begin to get old.

All humans are entrepreneurs not because they should start companies but because the will to create is encoded in human DNA.

I never played a perfect 18 holes. There is no such thing. I expect to make at least seven mistakes a round. Therefore, when I make a bad shot, I don't worry about it. It is just one of the seven.

It's all about being a part of something in the community, socializing with people who share interests and coming together to help improve the world we live in.