An art school is generated only by the intensity and heat of a common pressure.

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.

Work done by human beings for human beings.

Living your grandest dream will require you to be your grandest you.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.

Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation.

Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar. "Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.

Eternity: what a waste of time.

I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in 1977.

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.