Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch – we are going back from whence we came.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God’s language – it’s better, it’s finer, it’s language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually unrecognizable in the final story.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I’m fascinated by musicians who don’t completely understand their territory; that’s when you do your best work.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.

We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.

Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.

I’m not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that’s fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that’s fine. And it might not be right, because I’m the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It’s the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.

Sometimes it seems as if there are more solutions than problems. On closer scrutiny, it turns out that many of today’s problems are a result of yesterday’s solutions.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

When I was five, I think, that’s when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn’t like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I think we’ve taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don’t stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and – for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.