What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

Talk uses up ideas. Once I have spoken them aloud, they are lost to me, dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them, like bulbs, in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Old age is somewhat like dieting. Every day there is less of us to be observed.

My old friend, water, my good companion, my beloved mother and father: I am its most natural offspring.

one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.

Praise requires constant renewal and expansion.

A hand up is worthier than one's own fist grasping a higher rung of the ladder.

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence?

My eyes glaze over at a writer solving tiny problems.

Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud they are lost to me dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them like bulbs in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

Filmmaking can be a fine art.

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

It’s not God that I don’t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket.

You have to stand up and say, 'There's nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you're the one with the problem!'

Being in the Final Four was a dream of mine growing up, and I was unable to fulfill that dream, but I feel like I had a great college career and won a lot of games.

In no other arena is the church at greater risk of losing its calling than in the public square

He who complains, sins.