It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

The creative thinker must stand sufficiently detached from his work.

It seems safe to say that significant discovery really creative thinking does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm.

[D]emocracy can itself be as tyrannical as a dictatorship, since it is the extent, not the source, of government power that impinges on freedom."-William F Buckley

Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with feelings.

Our debt to our men and women in uniform is eternal, always will be. To all of those who have served our nation, I say so strongly that I will never, ever let you down.

Do I think reality TV is going to be a path to politics in a significant way? Eh, I don't know. Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety about the parts.

Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.

Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?

It doesn't matter what the FBI says. The New York Times is that big a bible for people on the left.

Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.