Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Rock and roll is the hamburger that ate the world.

A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life.

One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.

A diamond is merely a lump of coal that did well under pressure.

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.