A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

Definition of Love: A score of zero in tennis. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears of all my life.

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Anyone who opposes methods to control the birth rate, is automatically voting in favour having the death rate go up.

I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.

In an interview, Paris Hilton said that of her and her sister, "People love to hate us. But when you know us, you love us. And if you really get to know us, you get gonorrhea."

I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like.

It's simply a tragedy that anyone today goes blind from glaucoma, when it's so unnecessary.