The way back is always shorter.

And what more could I possibly ask as an artist than that your most precious visions, however rare, assume sometimes the forms of my images.

I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.

Use your freedom to experiment with visual ideas.

Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.

We are much too tolerant of the moral aberration of statesmen and bureaucrats.

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.

The best things in life must come by effort from within not by gifts from the outside.

Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

Melody is the first thing that comes to me when I'm songwriting. I learned piano classically first, and then I went into soul, and so melody has always been the first. It's so important.

A sense of achievement improves general confidence and self-esteem.

With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.