"A worker without genius is better than a genius who won't work."

“I'll admit - I was honored to be on the cover of Time”

“No family is sane, is it?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“It's much better to become a Buddha than a Buddhist.”

“The best customer of American industry is the well paid worker.”

“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.”

Source : John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.”

“Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.”

“Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining.”