Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses.

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

Art is either revolution or plagiarism.

Art is a mad search for individualism.

Absinthe is the only decent drink that suits an artist.

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

When it's all said and done, jazz with a capital J is where I'm coming from. Dexter Gordon, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk - that's what I really studied when I was a teenager and what really fueled my passion.

I'm turning thirty this year. And you know the saying, a woman over thirty is more likely to get hit by a bomb than find a man.

I don't want to prove to anyone or prove to myself. I'd rather just enjoy and show myself that I am capable of doing it and actually going through the process.

Every next level of your life will demand a different you.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies, as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect, but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.

The world is just as concrete ornery vile and sublimely wonderful as before only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.

Grace is sufficient even though we huff and puff with all our might to try and find something or someone that it cannot cover. Grace is enough.

If I have a connection with someone, I'd like to think that they'd be able to respect that connection enough and respect themselves enough to not care about my past - that they would want to see what happens between us.

The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.

Courage means to keep working a relationship to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems and to stay focused during stressful periods.

I usually play toffs and soldiers, with a sideline in mass murderers.

Closure that impossible thing that no one had ever experienced in life because there always seemed to be a little aperture a slit of light.

My great-grandfather was a man of great vision, drive, and native intelligence, with some human flaws amplified by limited education, limited social range, and questionable influence from some of his advisers.

Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.

La Flavours Mandolay is a disco classic I dare you to sit still while listening to it.

My standard uniform is a T-shirt and jeans.

If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems

In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.

I love horror movies.