The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

I was motivated to be different in part because I was different.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

The best thing to do is try and make sure you're getting something at your end. We had stretches where we didn't get that.

Sometimes doing a movie for a short period of time is better than committing eight months to a television show.

If I paint like a barbarian, it's because we live in a barbarous age

It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in the world.

Foreknowledge of the future makes it possible to manipulate both enemies and supporters.

There is a connection between me and the collectors, and as admirers of the work they tell me about the differences the pieces are able to make in their lives on a daily basis.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.