Our company was mortgaged to the hilt, and that did restrain us, and it's why we had to take in partners.
A neurosis is a secret that you don’t know you are keeping.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.
How far should one accept the rules of the society in which one lives? To put it another way: at what point does conformity become corruption? Only by answering such questions does the conscience truly define itself.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience to explain mankind to itself; both attempt, in very different ways, to assemble coherence from seemingly unrelated phenomena; both stand guard for us against chaos.
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
All values are important, everyone who has ever touched my life in some way was a mentor for good or bad. Life is a blend, and a person is a blend of all the influences that have touched their lives.
After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.
Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies.