American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.
My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.
Each succeeding civilization forgets its predecessor. Civilizations are ghouls.
People often swear the first time they see my work. I like that.
I mean, you have to try and make the best music you can, and you're not going to do that by emulating something you don't believe is the best.
Releasing a record makes you realise what you want to do with music. It's not something you can understand before you do it.
Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.
A city of homes should not be built as a business center.
You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here...
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.