Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.

Success is not achieved in a vacuum: the people you spend most of your time with and the voices you allow to influence your thoughts play a significant part in your success or lack of it.

Everything in its own time. If your time is not right now, your right now may be soon.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

I've been building a fiction in part around the Marfa poem since my brief residency there, which has kept it from receding into the past.

We do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. We do it to create more success stories.

I think it's always difficult to reconcile the needs of art and business.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

Be it only for a day, it is still a glory without equal to be master of the world just that day.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.