In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.

The first time you do something only happens once.

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

A lot of good things don't get made because of too much thinking.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.