The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

We came to save the sacred writings. - Essenes to Eleazar, on collecting the Dead Sea Scrolls from the burning Temple. Jerusalem, 70 CE.

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

This is a great time to shut up and kiss me." To her delight, Blake obliged.

When you're playing somebody who's going through a lot - frustration and hardship - you're just purging all your emotions, and it feels really good to do that.

I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

Hopefully my hair grows really quick, I want it long again

I had been looking for a New York apartment, but I said, Why not give LA a go?

I don't write because of some rare talent. I write because I have a little voice inside of me that says really cool things and never shuts up.

In Cuba, I didn't even have a bicycle.