In the Art of Dreaming Don Juan tells Carlos, "... most of our energy goes into upholding our importance... if we were capable of losing some of that….

I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result of fate was not convin….

Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do..

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined..

I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot ….

The idea that the Christian god is just, is directly contradicted by the idea that the Christian god is merciful. Perfect justice and any mercy are n….

Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one to the use of force again….

Tourism has affected Cuba, because tourists come and they bring racist, sexist ideas. They bring a whole vision that there are rich people all over t….

That's so her. You know, torn between Big Ideas and a party. She's always been that way..

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah..

Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old..

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling..

The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I'v….

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting..

A man can only lead when others accept him as their leader, and he has only as much authority as his subjects give to him. All of the brilliant ideas….

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place..

The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other..

To me, photography was a completely new medium, and I did not... feel the urge to transfer to it my ideas about painting..

The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that ….

I'm trying to stay open to the idea that the Internet is not the evil foe of publishing but the handmaiden that will turn out to be a blessing for po….

Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general idea."….