Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt.

A Gustave Courbet portrait of a trout has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion.

One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

Popular in our time, unpopular in his. So runs the stereotype of rejected genius.

It is the nature of carnivores to get power and then, having disposed of their enemies, to deploy the emollient powers of Great Art to make themselves look like herbivores.

Christmas began in the heart of God. It is complete only when it reaches the heart of man.Why wait for a call when you have a command?

My love is pizza shaped. Won’t you have a slice? It’s circular, so there’s enough to go around.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and vanity.

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

The habits of the West in terms of consumption.

If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.

To me, no one has fully cracked the code on social recruiting yet.

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Choosing whom you love is the most political decision you can make.

Fargo is one of my favorite movies.