Talent is a faucet. When it is on, one must write. Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

The object of art is to give life a shape.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Our entire life, with our fine moral code and our precious freedom, consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

The object of art is to give life shape.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.

I suppose I'm saying that defiance is actually part of the lyric job

The most formidable way to lead is to serve. And while the perplexing oxymoron of such a grinding statement absolutely cripples us, it birthed a Savior.

Wonderful souls make life wonderful.

A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.

Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

Looking and seeing do not originate in your self. You are able to look in your self because looking and seeing are before your self.

If you hype something and it succeeds, you're a genius - it wasn't a hype. If you hype it and it fails, then it was just a hype.