The hoop is there to remind us not to jump through it, not to submit to someone else's control.

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.

You see, my ambition was not to confound the engineering world but simply to create a beautiful piece of art.

He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, just as later in life he denied his blindness by calling for more and more candles.

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.

If you look closely you can see that they are all interconnected, symbolic of a never-ending circle in which it is simply impossible for the dog to catch the rabbit.

The chariot was purchased by a private collector who took it home to New York. I take pleasure in knowing that it was built to last for at least a thousand years.

In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.

The dog and the rabbit are telling us not to chase unattainable material goals.

Having designed and built several clocks during my career it suddenly occurred to me that when you look at the face of a clock both hands have the same center.

I started by looking at what others had done before me. You see, over the years there have been attempts by many different people to reconstruct the chariot.

If you don't smell good, then you don't look good.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?

My favorite was going as a boxer when I was 9 years old and wearing my dad's boxing gear.

Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated.

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

I've never been a flag waver, but I can lead by example.

I think there was no other profession for me. I was either going into an insane asylum or to be an actor.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.