The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or ….

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time..

Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable..

Thatʹs a dangerous look,ʺ said Dimitri, giving me a brief glance before returning his eyes to the road. ʺWhat look?ʺ I asked innocently. ʺThe one tha….

My Precious, my Precious..

The mind effortlessly and automatically takes in new ideas, which remain in limbo until verified or rejected by conscious, rational analysis..

All paintings start with concept, which is another word for image or imagination. The mistake is to isolate the concept as if the idea did not need t….

No idea can succeed except at the expense of sacrifice; no one ever escapes without enduring strain from the struggle of life..

Any woman is sexual, absolutely..

And while I was not an admirer of people in the specific, I liked them in the abstract. It is only the execution of the idea that disappoints..

If we were to tell you to deliberately spend ten minutes every day envisaging yourself being very ill, you'd quite rightly refuse to do it. Most peop….

Sometimes I'm inspired by the material and sometimes there's an idea that speaks to a material..

I have a writing space in my apartment, but I prefer to write at coffee shops. When I'm stuck, I take a walk and spend time outside to clear my mind.….

This rationale, which justified the mixed constitution of Great Britain, might have made some sense in 1776, but by 1787 most American thinkers had c….

Our accent will be upon youth: we need new ideas, new methods, new approaches. We will call upon young students of political science throughout the n….

The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea..

What is I? It's what you are, not what others make of you..

That's a great feeling to know that I'm going into a project that I have no idea what will become of that movie, but I really trust Ang Lee. And I re….

Ideas do not need weapons..

I see things in a specific way. All the films are different. There are specific characters and scenes and locations and ideas. There are colors I wan….

I am myself and I am here..