“Artists by definition innocent don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.”

“Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.”

“Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.”

“Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.”

“Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.”

“The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.”

“I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.”

“I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.”

“In the four years since its launch, Kepler has chalked up 122 new and confirmed planets. It's also caught the scent of nearly three thousand additional objects, of which probably 80 percent or more...”

“World is not like what you see”

“What you see is what suffices you”

“...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.”

“As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.”

“You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.”

“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”