Everyone knows that time is Death, that Death hides in clocks. Imposing another time powered by the Clock of the Imagination, however, can refuse his law. Here, freed of the Grim Reaper's scythe, we learn that pain is knowledge and all knowledge pain.

One of the greatest handicaps is to fear a mistake. You have stopped yourself. You have to move freely into the arena, not just to wait for the perfect situation, the perfect moment... If you have to make a mistake, it's better to make a mistake of action than one of inaction. If I had the opportunity again, I would take chances.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

Nothing is more honest than a dream.

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.