Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.

Skills are common. Talent is rare.

My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.

Skills are common. Talent is rare.

Being efficient is the easy part. Suppressing one's ego completely for hours at a time is really hard.

My life and most people's lives are a series of little miracles -- strange coincidences which spring from uncontrollable impulses and give rise to incomprehensible dreams. We spend a lot of time pretending that we are normal, but underneath the surface each one of us knows that he or she is unique.

He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.

You're not lost in the storm, Marilyn. You are the storm.