You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all.

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.