Nobody will stop you from creating. Do it tonight. Do it tomorrow. That is the way to make your soul grow.

Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease.

1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else, and all of a sudden this stuff came gushing out of him. It was music. I was goofing around like everybody else in Indiana, and all of a sudden stuff came gushing out. It was disgust with civilization.

Luck is not the hand of God.... Luck is the way the wind swirls and the dust settles eons after God has passed by.

Rome wasn't built in a day.