Employees make the best dates. You don’t have to pick them up and they’re always tax-deductible.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Spielberg isn’t a filmmaker, he’s a confectioner.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.