No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

...that witchcraft requires no potions, familiar spirits, or magic wands. Language upon a silver tongue affords enchantment enough.

The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers.

Painting is like making love. You cannot ask, 'How do you do it?' But, hopefully, it is beautiful.

The time will come when man will know even what is going on in the other planets and perhaps be able to visit them.

You can either be a vain movie star, or you can try to shed some light on different aspects of the human condition.

Live life as if it were created just for you.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

Hollywood is Newark, New Jersey with palm trees.

What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There's better exercise In the sunlight and wind.

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible