Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.

Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand... prejudice, fear and ignorance walk hand-in-hand.

...The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

From the point of ignition. To the final drive. The point of the journey is not to arrive.

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.

If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum.

A spirit with a vision is a dream with a mission.

Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations.

How can anybody be enlightened? Truth is after all so poorly lit

Turn down mediocrity in all its forms!

London is a language. I guess all places are.

Keep in mind that there are computers, that do touch things up. Like when I got a hold of the poster for 'Gold Diggers, ' I said: 'Hey, wait a minute! Those aren't my teeth!'

The worst environmental decision you can make as a human being is to have 14 kids.

I'm not comfortable holidaying in other people's poverty.

Individuals who are really inspirational are always what changes history. Gandhi had a bunch of good ideas, and he led a non - violent revolution that transformed India.

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.

We both exist and know that we exist, and rejoice in this knowledge.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

An image often propels the novel, gets it started. For me, it's an image that has a lot of emotion connected to it.