When we are no longer children we are already dead

Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.

To see far is one thing, going there is another.

Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them

...That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.

The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible.

Whoever does not detach himself from the ego never attains the Absolute and never deciphers life.

Having delivered the expected daily miracle, Floote stood in his usual stance and warily watched the Templars work.

Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos and yet formaldehyde is a powerful appetite stimulant, so you also crave a burrito.

Films that I want to do are few and far between.

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

Fate Marches on, demanding we find our destinies

Human nature at times is unfortunately very ugly and I learned the world can be a very ugly place. For as much beauty there is, there's just as much brutality and violence and ugliness.

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.

A child’s greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

The right-hander is throwing up in the bullpen.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.