You want inspiration to come in a natural way and let it happen when it's going to happen. The last thing you want is this ghost looming over you say….

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate o….

When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn….

Picasso has been my inspiration, expressing himself in a hundred different ways..

No nice men are good at getting taxis..

My poems often start with an idea, some kind of inspiration. I don't expect anything. Every now and then something like "The One Truth" comes out..

Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days..

Now we must learn to judge a society by its sounds..

My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyo….

Most of the writers I like just intimidate and humble me but in that there's a good deal of inspiration to be had as well..

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to….

It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums and other tributes to all of our collective failures. It is time that we sta….

Never stop writing because you have run out of ideas. Fill the lacunae of inspiration by tidily copying out what is already written..

Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not cond….

Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverl….

Rich people are those who know that the best is yet to come..

Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves..

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one..

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of the chaos that we have create….

When Ivy [Wilkes] begins her work in forgery, she doesn't yet know the toll that it will take on her own original work. She even thinks it might be a….

Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity ….