To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

Malicious gossip takes the place of creation in non-creative lives.

What man can imagine he may one day achieve.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.

If civilization ever achieves a higher standard of what constitutes normality, it will have been the neurotic who led the way.

Never give away your work. People don’t value what they don’t have to pay for.

imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

The more specific you are, the more universal you are.

In order to go anywhere it is necessary to be where one is.

Love yourself to love others.

As a nation, we will only become the shining light to the world with the emergence of more and more role models worthy of emulation by all

Time is measured in meaning

You only truly possess that which you cannot lose in a shipwreck.

I'd mortgage any house for art.

A world without Tony Randall is a world that I cannot recognize.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

I'm super confident about creative stuff, and I'm really not confident about human interactions stuff.

'Psycho' is fascinating philosophically, because the point of 'Psycho' is that everything that's bad happens because of love.

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.