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For years I felt that I wasn't ready to take on slavery. It's a huge topic, and I didn't want to mess it up.
'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
The deadly Hydra now is the hydra of Equality. Liberty, Equality and Fraternity is the three-fanged serpent.
When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
I came out after safe sex was invented and I always practiced safe sex. Except for when I lost my virginity.
Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.
To persevere is always a reflection of the state of one's inner life, one's philosophy and one's perspective
There's been very little writing about speech impediments, even though it's this huge psychological barrier.
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out?
Love never stands still; it must inevitably be either growing or decaying - especially the love of marriage.
...With stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down.
I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt.
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
The youth do not see the old. They are not programmed to see the old, who are cancelled, negated, wiped out.
I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate
STRANGELOVE REPRODUCTION: Having children to make up for the fact that one no longer believes in the future.
I worship teachers. They can't be paid enough. It depresses me that society sees them as somehow expendable.
Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.
I'm a holy man minus the holiness. Hand that on to your three spies, and tell them to put it in their pipes.
The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
Ah, good conversation - there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.
whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself.
In the rotation of crops there was a recognized season for wild oats; but they were not sown more than once.
I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Dont trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.
History portrays everything as if it could not have come otherwise. History is on the side of what happened.
'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.
the mind naturally accommodates itself, even to the most ridiculous improprieties, if they occur frequently.
A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?
It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!
Writing to me is a voyage, an odyssey, a discovery, because I'm never certain of precisely what I will find.
Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.
Body odour (known also as scent of the immortals) is a disgusting condition with an awful, nauseating smell.
Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.
Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.
People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.
If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit.