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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination... And don't bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from—it's where you take them to."

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.