The plastic virtues: purity, unity, and truth, keep nature in subjection.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Joy came always after pain.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down provided it is the right temptation put in the right spot.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world.

You have the feeling that if you get a Pulitzer, you're somehow set for life.

The truth is that you are the instrument of God, that you have to become one with God, that you have to be born again.

We must protect ourselves from jihadis without losing ourselves.

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

It's a really fun hobby to set imagery to music, and finding the right songs for that. Your favorite song in the world might not work at all... for one reason or another.