"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."

"Don't try to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

"The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews."

"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it."

"We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion."

"A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything."

"There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing."

"It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor."

"I'm an experienced woman; I've been around... well, alright, I might not've been around, but I've been... nearby."

"Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie."