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It all comes down to who is by your side and who is willing to stand up for love even when it seems impossible.
Happiness is boundlessly weird. Other people's choices often seem to delight them, where I would run screaming.
I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.
The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.
If you can change style, why stick to one style? Style is a vanity because it gives you product identification.
I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.
The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.
Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.
Ender Wiggin must believe that no matter what happens, no adult will ever, ever step in to help him in any way.
The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.
Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.
The conversation seemed just as boring and forgettable as details of American history around 1805, for example.
I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.
Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.
Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important
Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.
When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.
I love films that take place over a short period of time, and I feel that those films are in our cinematic DNA.
I've read both books that 'Beautiful Boy' is based on, and I can't wait to see that film. I root for that film.
In my family, if something were to have happened with one of my kids, I think my wife would be the tougher one.
Little kids are that way; they feel if their parents aren't watching what they do then what they do isn't real.
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
I'm an Obama supporter. And if you're an Obama supporter, that means you had a hard time during the Bush years.
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.
To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.
A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!
I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal.
I have a theory... that someplace at the heart of most compelling stories is something that doesn't make sense.
Try not to sing too many sad songs for yourself. The universe already hates you. Self-pity isn't going to help.
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.
Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?
There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be.
One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.
Full Disclosure: I hate David with the passion of a thousand fiery suns all going to supernova at the same time
I actually don't think there is machismo in America, unless it's the cowboy type - the silent, smoking brooder.
In the real world, immeasurable hurt is caused by terrorists based in Pakistan who attack countries like India.
Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.
Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.
You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.
I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.
I don't know if you've ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for thousands of years. Or just not exist.
Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss.