There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly learn what other people have already figured out

If many good things have not happened in your life, God is not to be blamed

I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, "The world will never understand.

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

I have too much work on my hands and I would not be a dutiful husband.

If your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away.

It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

I feel a real connection to Brooklyn, certainly, because I spent 20 years of my life there, but I don't think of myself as a Brooklyn artist any more than I think of myself as a male artist.

Virtually every magazine, newspaper, TV station and cable channel is owned by a big corporation, and they've squashed stories that they don't want the public to know about.