The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

I tend the wounded, /and in the tending, wound./Sometimes truly seeing another/is lethal./Loving fully, a bayonet.

Whatever we conceive well we express clearly.

Watching my dad, Ralph Lauren, design clothes when I was young, I was always inspired.

We were most creative when our back was against the wall.

It is God's hand which has guided everything, and it is God whom we must thank above all.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world.

I have either a cucumber martini, gin martini, or a vodka martini. That's it. Simple.

Draw, draw, hundreds of drawings. Try to remain humble. Smartness kills everything.