It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.

The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.

Yes, I've received death threats.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

I would lying if I said I would laugh in the face of death.