Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

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

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them? You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.

I think I belong to America’s last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It’s an individual-feel thing, you know?

The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you’re opposed to it. But when you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

I’ve had a fan who made a painting of my face with her fingers. I have put it up in my room. It was sweet and very different.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I don’t write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I always have to be writing.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

I think sometimes – not always – I write songs that are accessible.

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

The way I define ‚intelligent design‘ is that when people started out, we wanted to make sense of the world we lived in, so we created stories about how things worked.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‚Nice doggie‘ until you can find a rock.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Art is the proper task of life.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.