Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Is it not important to find out how to listen not only to what is being said but to everything – to the noise in the streets, to the chatter of birds, to the noise of the tramcar, to the restless sea, to the voice of your husband, to your wife, to your friends, to the cry of a baby?

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

A person hears only what they understand.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

I’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

We have the resources to build room for a trillion humans in this solar system, and when we have a trillion humans, we’ll have a thousand Einsteins and a thousand Mozarts. It will be a way more interesting place to live.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

What you are comes to you.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

The way I talk is bizarre.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I feel like when I try to fit in, it comes across as not genuine, and that is not good. I’d rather just do me and have people say, ‚Oh. That’s interesting,‘ than try to fit in.

Never complain. Never explain.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

If tomorrow I want to release a rock album or I want to release a bachata album, nobody can tell me anything – why can’t I?

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

There are many things I do where the centre of it is… It’s almost more my humanitarian work than art.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Frank and explicit – that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

I’m wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It’s a real enjoyment.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a woman’s body?

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.