The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Most new discoveries are suddenly-seen things that were always there. A new idea is a light that illuminates presences which simply had no form before the light fell on them.

The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality.

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.

Music is the tonal analogue of emotive life.

The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

If a work of art is a projection of feeling, its kinship with organic nature will emerge, no matter through how many transformations, logically and inevitably.

The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter.

Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.

Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth.

Customer complaints need to be addressed effectively.

Nobody knows this, but one of us has just been traded to Kansas City.

The only people who never fail are those who never try

I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.

I say, 'I will not be your weakness, Sean Kendrick.' Now he looks at me. He says, very softly, 'It's late for that, Puck.

To all the fantasy owners who drafted me: You're welcome.

The first essential for an attack is the will to attack.

Particularly [Alfred] Hitchcock, who takes his time with everything he says. There's a controlling way in how he speaks because he takes his time to finish all his sentences.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.