A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

She smelled like a mountain valley in springtime and made him dream of the future in a way he hadn’t considered possible.

Entrepreneurship, with the right mindset, can help anyone reach his goals in life.

I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.

Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

It's rare to find someone as equally grumpy as myself, but somehow [Aubrey Plaza] does it.

In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.