People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.

To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start.

In order to be creative, you don't have to be original.

You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it.

That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow