We cannot carry our father's corpse with us everywhere we go.

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.

The negotiations were simultaneously cerebral and physical, abstract and personal, something like a combination of chess and mountain climbing.

Don’t waste your energy & time on things you cannot change, instead pray & change your luck.

Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

Deadlines refine the mind. They remove variables like exotic materials and processes that take too long. The closer the deadline, the more likely you'll start thinking waaay outside the box.

As we pay our tithing faithfully, the Lord will open the windows of heaven and pour out upon us His richest blessings.

At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.

We're going to do things beyond waterboarding perhaps, if that happens to come.

Wisdom is something that seeks itself. The wiser you become the more you'd like to know.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.