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There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.
Do you always think this much? It's just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.
I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.
L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility.
David Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars' is a Hollywood monster movie in which Hollywood is the monster.
What matter the colour of the collar around a man's neck, if the chains linked to them were identical?
When a person you love moves by you with flat eyes that will not see you, it is a shock to believe it.
Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.
The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self.
I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.
Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid." "Don't limit yourself. You can be anything you wish.
This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year.
Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.
The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.
It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.
...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated.
It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.
Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.
What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn.
The best and only true history we have. Everyone interested in creative writing should know this book.
I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.
We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.
I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it.
But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.
There is power in controlling something that can do so much damage - in controlling something, period.
If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
...All my best words are deserters and do not answer the trumpet call, and the remainder are cripples.
Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.
It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserve.
They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of finks.
Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.
There's a boy across the river with an ass like a peach; alas I was no swimmer and lost my Clementine.
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of ones own resources.
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.
Once you get older, people stop listening to what you say. It's very agreeable once you get used to it.
Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd." -Cage
When it's just a few scenes and a couple of actors behaving in a room, I feel very confident with that.
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.
You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.
There are doubtless certain unworldly people who are indifferent to money. I myself have never met one.
For in the long run, either through a lie, or through truth, people were bound to give themselves away.
Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?