You must be much WITH God before you can be much FOR God..

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that..

It's very tough to get yourself around the idea that there could be a mechanism being used or abused to restrict and alter the society in which we li….

Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we tr….

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort….

That which comes slow comes solid..

When I turned 45, I lay in bed reflecting on all life had taught me. My soul sprang a leak and ideas flowed out. My pen simply caught them and set th….

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences..

Sometimes the first step is the hardest: coming up with an idea. Coming up with an idea should be like sitting on a pin-it should make you jump up an….

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by t….

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next..

The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell..

Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination..

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas..

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth..

The only people who live in a post-black world are four people who live in a little white house on Pennsylvania Avenue. The idea that America is post….

Music works in mysterious ways. Once it goes in you have no idea what it can do to you..

Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits down anew to th….

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What ….

I don't have a readership, I have a thinkership. I guess this is why what I do is called "conceptual writing." The idea is much more important than t….

But I'm not adverse to the idea of Torch Song as a musical. It would just be different. Because the play will always be there exactly as it was, and ….