We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

The understanding eye sees the maker’s fingerprints. They are evident in every detail ... Leave Fingerprints.

Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.

It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg adress was so short. The laws of prose writing are immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Fr letter to Maxwell Perkins 1945

We're not polishing fine china here.

You know some of the people in The Strokes, yeah, their parents had success - but we didn't live like yuppies.

You just do the things that you love and see if other people can like them too.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.

An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

He that always waits upon God is ready whenever He calls. Neglect not to set your accounts even; he is a happy man who to lives as that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.

The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.

The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it.