There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

Life did come with a manual.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

Stairs to success are made of people.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived.

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

We have to get money. We have no choice. It cost money to eat.

I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

The Depression taught me what frugality means and the importance of not losing money.

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

Once you become a producer, you're really selling something. It is a control issue, because you don't really know how it's going to pan out, but the creative control makes it work it.