"Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."
"As a cousin of mine once said about money, money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to day about money."
"More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
"Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies."
"As a cousin of mine once said about money, money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to day about money."
"Beauty is the purgation of superfluities."
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
"When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next."
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–3): A Memorable Fancy The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, & breeds reptiles of the mind."
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
"There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror."
"The way I see it, if you want a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."
"In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is."
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people."
"The weak in courage is strong in cunning."
"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art."
"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
"Defend my dead painting<br>now, Giovanni, and my honor<br>not being in a good place nor I a painter."
"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."
"The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out."
"Life's what's important. Walking, houses, family. Birth and pain and joy. Acting's just waiting for a custard pie. That's all."
"Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
"Because bread and babies, as every housewife knows, is a full-time job. After I made the loaves, I felt like I had conquered something. But as I watched the bread being eaten, I thought, Well, don't I get a gold record or knighted or nothing?"
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday."
"The inappropriate cannot be beautiful."
"To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."
"The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship."
"I can't remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity."
"Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best."
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
"Nessuna humana investigazione si pio dimandara vera scienzia s’essa non passa per le matematiche dimon- strazione. (No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.)"
"Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body."
"To generalize is to be an idiot."
"I'm going into an unknown future, and where there's life there's hope."
"The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey."
"Everything you can imagine is real."
"It is written on the arched sky It looks out from every starÖ It is the poetry of Nature It is that which uplifts the spirit within us."
"Without deviation, progress is not possible."
"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."
"There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart."
"Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes."
"It's not true that I said 'actors are cattle.' I said 'they should be treated like cattle.'"
"It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune."
"No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple."
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
"I can know all things on Earth."
"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
"Everybody knows that if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."