You pass people on the street, some are for you, some are not.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.

There is weakness in pretending to know more than you know or in stating less than you know.

We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.

Cherish your own emotions and never under-value them. We are not here to do what has already been done.

Laugh, and the world longs to be your friend.

I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.

You don't carry in your countenance a letter of recommendation.

What a wonderful and amazing Scheme have we here of the magnificent Vastness of the Universe! So many Suns, so many Earths.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

I was never the cool kid, I was never hot in high school. I was never popular. You don't have to be perfect and you don't have to be rich and you can still be successful.

My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.