...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.

All beginnings are hard.

I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.

Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul

True friends don't send sms, they give a phone call.

I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no aspen slivers in uncomfortable places, we're calling it a win."Merit/Jonah

They say everything in the world is good for something.

I can't legislate to change human nature.

The 'clean energy' challenge deserves a commitment akin to the Manhattan project or the Apollo moon landing.

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

Education, I am convinced, must be nothing more than this: The journey toward the limits of Reason, if any there be.

O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend.

Great floods have flown From simple sources.