People only see in us the contemptible skirt-fever which rules our actions but completely miss the beauty-hunger underlying it.

Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural.

Poverty is a great cutter-off and riches a great shutter-off.

I have done so many things in my life, " she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's.

You can become famous but you can't become unfamous. You can become infamous but not unfamous.

A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.

My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

My endeavors Have ever come too short of my desires. Yet filed with my abilities.