“If a poem hasn’t ripped apart your soul; you haven’t experienced poetry.”

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health.

Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

Yet mad I am not and very surely do I not dream.

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

The best things in life make you sweaty.

A million candles have burned themselves out. Still I read on.

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness – and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I’ve always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

You cant build any kind of organization if you’re not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man’s-land, to experience each moment as completely new and fresh. To live is to be willing to die over and over again.

Traveling around in a little tin box isolates one from the people and the atmosphere of the place in a way that I have never experienced before.

No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.

Different experiences they shape and form our perspective.

Let difficulty transform you. And it will. In my experience, we just need help in learning how not to run away.