Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Get busy living or get busy dying

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

If you can consciously let yourself get taken and see where you go, that's an exercise. That's discipline. To follow the scent. Let yourself go and see what happens, that takes a bit of courage.