I went to see that movie 'From Hell,' or as Osama bin Laden calls it - 'Roots. '
The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.
A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).
The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.
The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To burn with all the emotions you didn't get to experience in the ordinary run of school, TV, and loading the dishwasher after dinner.
For young women, I would say don't worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women, too, what makes you different or weird-that's your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now I don't. It's OK.
The rich are depressed because they realize their money can't buy them out of their issues.
I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on it and hopefully drive some runners in.