“I can charge a man's battery, and then recharge it, and recharge it again. But it is only when he has his own generator that we can talk about motivation. He then needs no outside stimulation. He wants to do it.”

“If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.”

“People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.”

“A small man always has one weapon he can use against a great big man: he can "talk" about him.”

“I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries, not their solution.”

“We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.”

“General, man is very useful.
He can fly and he can kill.
But he has one defect:
He can think.”

“When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.”

“A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.--Louis Auchincloss”

“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.”