The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it.

Every moment of life is unique-a kiss, a sunset, a dance, a joke. None will ever recur in quite the same way. Each happens only once in the history of the universe.

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.

Improvisation is intuition in action, a way to discover the muse and learn to respond to her call.

Structure ignites spontaneity. Limits yield intensity. When we play... by our self-chosen rules, we find that containment of strength amplifies strength.

The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of ones chosen form.

To do anything artistically you have to acquire technique, but create through your technique and not with it.

Surrender means cultivating a comfortable attitude toward not knowing, being nurtured by the mystery of moments that are dependably surprising, ever fresh.

Any action can be practiced as an art, as a craft, or as drudgery.

Every conversation is a form of Jazz. The activity of instantaneous creation is as ordinary to us as breathing.

My capacity for happiness, " he added, "you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first

One can survive every hurt and move on, except the hatred of a mother formed without reasons, that one could not elucidate.

All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

Since no one is always right, always being right is really a role model for his children feeling inadequate.