... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

The rim is looking bigger and bigger every game.

The happiness of the world is transitory. The less you become attached to the world, the more you enjoy peace of mind.

The clothing, the makeup, the freedom of expression in [the models'] bodies. It was Linda and Christy and Naomi at the time. So I modeled before college.

It takes a long time to turn a big country around. Just be of good cheer and keep working on it.