“Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.”

Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.

We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.

He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

Don’t underestimate the value of irony-it is extremely valuable.

I don’t care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.

Live as you like best and your character will take care of itself.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

In art economy is always beauty.

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.

You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

It led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.

Excellence does not require perfection.

There’s no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.

To play Khal Drogo was phenomenal, and I wished there was more stuff he could have done. I’m going to miss that character.

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.

All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.

Grease’ is an awesome movie. I wish they’d make a new one, more for our time. The graphics are terrible when you look back on it.

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

Pandora’s box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.

I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.