When we are involved in [creativity], we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life.

For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them real.

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.

And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you can't be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical knowledge immersion in a particular field.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

Flow is hard to achieve without effort. Flow is not 'wasting time.

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

So it's off with the shellsuit and on with the Armanis, Bring out the champagne and the caviar sarnies

Don't be nice to me. Be what your personality requires you to be. Be what your nature requires you to be. Be real. Don't pressurize yourself.

I've always tried to make movies that pull the audience out of their seats... I want audiences to be transported.

During the Civil War, on hearing complaints that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant drank alcohol to excess Find out what Grant drinks and send a barrel of it to each of my other generals!

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

God's love fills the immensity of space; therefore, there is no shortage of love in the universe, only in our willingness to do what is needed to feel it.

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

The reason why most of actors got into acting was so that we could become other people and have fun with being somebody else.

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

Fake friends are around when they think you're cool. True friends are around even when they think you're fool.