As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

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

I think it's best to keep the controversy on the pages and not in our relationships.

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

I agree that a love of reading is a great gift for a parent to pass on to his or her child.

He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.

Everything you know could already be wrong.

Do every stupid thing that makes you feel alive.

A lot of getting a song done is booking the studio time. I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.

There's something about childhood friends that you just can't replace.

Time is life. Anyone who wastes my time is killing me. Please don't!

Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.