Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing.

Everything has been homogenized. Over time, with television and jet travel, everybody has blended together. Some of our wonderful charm has been lost.

It's a prizefight. Get off the stool, take your beating, go back to your corner, rest, and take a beating again. Believe in your own talent. Marry well.

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

So you’re a reader, ” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

Success doesn't sneak up on us; it starts as a dream that we combine with a clear plan of action.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

The imagination may be compared to Adam's dream-he awoke and found it truth.

All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.

We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.

Without ships, we cannot live.