Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

The good times of today are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

An idea is salvation by imagination