Rewriting is the crucible where books are born.

When you carry someone else's baggage, it's nearly impossible to get rid of your own. Drop it. Now.

Surviving is a necessity. Living is an art.

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

Fanatics are those who, when following a doctrine becomes inconvenient, make up rules of their own.

The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

My own center, my Kingdom Center, which is the highest priced tower in Saudi Arabia, was vacated twice because of terrorist attacks, terrorist threats.

Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.

So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.

You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities.

[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel important.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

You frantically want to make a mark on the history of humanity? You, King of the Fools! In the very distant future, there shall be no history; there shall remain not even a single trace of anything!