I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages..

Losing would be painful, but not as painful as knowing there was something else you could've done..

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations ….

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought….

How can you construct a morality if there's no morality inherent in the way things are? You might be able to delude yourself into thinking you had 'c….

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it….

If I can't write it would be as if I died..

Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that sh….

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we c….

To understand that, we have to begin to imagine what a universe would be like if there wasn't anything in it called Mind. If that was the case, accor….

And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it..

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty.

I would be perfectly happy doing an indie film that had some really cool creative ideas..

If there weren't so many professors, medicine would be much easier..

He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had eve….

It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly..

Now the line was drawn. Lucy had never thought that one of the fiercest battles of her life would be fought over a breakfast table, with quiet words ….

I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling..

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!.

I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. ….

If people did not compliment one another there would be little society..