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“You know, once you give birth, once you have kids, you realize what's important in life, and you realize it's really not difficult to be a good person. And so when people aren't good around me, I tend to move away from that. There are so many good people in the world, and you want to surround your children with that.”
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“And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.”
Source : Hart Crane (1965). “The letters of Hart Crane, 1916-1932”
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“I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.”
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“Every man is a potential genius until he does something.”
Source : "Beerbohm Tree" by Hesketh Pearson, (p. 110), 1956.
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“Dreams express what your soul is telling yu, so as crazy as your dream might seem - even to you - I don't care: You have t let that out.”
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“Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.”
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“Most learning is social, or what I call the cultural DNA. Everyone knows that word of mouth advertising is the best advertising. That's social learning.”
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“I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!”
Source : "Fictional character: Miss Mona". "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas", www.imdb.com. 1982.