“I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.”

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

You have to know what you want to get it.

You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing, and we shouldn’t complicate the matter.

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

I guarantee there’s people who watch television who have no idea how complicated it is to make a television show.

There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

Cuisine has become too complicated – this is about subject, verb, adjective: duck, turnips, sauce.

Being on a show with a female lead is amazing for me. I love that. I love the powerful woman who’s complicated.

The colour grey makes you feel uneasy, makes things seem complicated and hopeless, it upsets the notion of black and white.

I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.