Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

Personally I regard idling as a virtue, but civilized society holds otherwise.

No one who claims this to be a small world has ever flown across the Pacific.

The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.

It seems quite pointless to waste health relentlessly in order to earn money that we shall spend on recovering health.

Though you can get smart from reading everything that a smart person writes, you cannot get famous from reading about everything that a famous person does or is said to have done.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

Every moment is not great and sometimes those are the moments in which you learn the most.

The only way to get love is by giving it, that the more you give the more you will get, and the only way in which you can give it, is to fill yourself with it, until you become a magnet.

I'd never even thought about compromise when I worked in my studio. The major distinction is in the priority of who I ultimately wanted to please: myself or the audience.

Wine is a bride who brings a great dowry to the man who woos her persistently and gracefully.

I have never found criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

I just close my eyes and I fantasize what I would like to see.

From the very fact the universe is on the whole orderly, in a manner comprehensible to our intellect, is evidence that we and it were fashioned by a common intelligence.