No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I never practice, I always play.

Great necessities call out great virtues.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

The best advice I ever got when I was starting out: Never give up. And I never did.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water.