#Ideas

"Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much."

"I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them."

"Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof."

"Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to create new ideas, to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory."

"A thousand years ago, everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, they knew the Earth was flat. Fifteen minutes ago, you knew we humans were alone on it. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow."

"I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas."

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

"If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!"

"I read anything that’s going to be interesting. But you don’t know what it is until you’ve read it. Somewhere in a book on the history of false teeth there’ll be the making of a novel."

"The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we'll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of it."

"One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation."

"Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art."

"Painting is a nail to which I fasten my ideas."