There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

A species that survives by creating must not limit who can create. More creators means more creations. Equality brings justice to some and wealth to all.

Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.

Creating is an ordinary act, creation its extraordinary outcome.

The truth is hidden in books.

Kids have to be taught to hate.

Ultimately, what audiences respond to is truth. Even as fantastical as the story can be, and out there, at its core, it's dealing with loss, madness and mortality.

Life's been nothing but paperwork.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

Being a successful investor & winning in the stock market is a matter of skill & discipline and not luck alone

I supported the stimulus package.

The political environment we create matters because a disturbed person cannot always tell the difference between explosive rhetoric and explosive actions.

We must believe, but we can't believe. Perhaps this is the tragedy that some of us see in Obama: a change we can believe in and the crushing realisation that nothing will change.

photographs alter and enlarge our notions of what is worth looking at and what we have a right to observe. They are a grammar and, even more importantly, an ethics of seeing.