The job is not to succeed but fail more interesting than the last time—- in a more subtle fashion or in a more intriguing way.

Work on the Who, the Who, and the Who. Add some Who, and then explore the Who. The What and Where will reveal itself.

Experience what’s happening now, and make your surroundings real. You don’t have to invent an environment: it already exists.

Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say.

Don’t be afraid. Be focused. Be determined. Be hopeful. Be empowered.

You can never be too thin or too rich. And if you don't believe it you were never really fat or really poor.

Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint.

If he had had no education, maybe Basho could have been a much greater poet.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have.