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If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.
Government money in the arts, I fear, can only deflect artists from their responsibility to find an authentic market for their products.
I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.
I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
By removing the stories from the morass of things that surround us, I'm hoping to achieve some kind of purer approach to emotional life.
I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.
I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.
As a writer, my main objective is to tell the story urgently - as if whispering it into one ear - and to know the characters intimately.
What good is a writer if he can't destroy literature? And us... what good are we if we don't help as much as we can in that destruction?
Sometimes the most worthwhile things are right in front of our eyes. We just make them hard because we think that gives them more value.
My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.
Most of all, I love unfussy, unpretentious, simple food made with excellent ingredients. If I'm a snob, it's about quality, not cuisine.
I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.
Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.
There is certainly a satisfaction and dignity to be gained in coming to terms with the mistakes one has made in the course of one’s life
As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.
I don't know what this feather means, the story of it, but I know it means he was thinking of me. For all these years. He remembered me.
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.
No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.
Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.
My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.
Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
Writing is done by someone. It is not, like some mythical goddess, a skill that springs forth, full grown from the genes of inspiration.
Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!
What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.
Delightful, tragic, gloriously elegiac and riddled with puns-Close to Hugh is just like life, only so much more beautiful for being art.
I shift, an infinitesimal movement, towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of references, but we cannot fill in the gap.
There is no doubt that a person's charms are less frequently a cause of love than a remark such as: 'No, this evening I shan't be free'.
You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.
Our kids are not here to comfort us, to entertain us, or to validate us. Those things need to come from ourselves and from other adults.
I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.
Smoking kills you, but life kills you, and if you don't want to die, go into a freezer when you are born and nothing will happen to you.
Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
Particularly as a Jew, I don't like missionary work. I've had it focused on me, and I don't like it. Let people be what they want to be.
Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.
Present-day Spain translates as many books into Spanish, annually, as the Arab world has translated into Arabic in the past 1,100 years.
Never content just to be, America is also obliged to mean; America signifies, hence its constant and riveting vulnerability to illusion.
No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily in front of Charles Bronson.
Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
Romance is not an idea, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone looks into your eyes and knows exactly who you are, what you need.
People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.
So long as the new moon returns in heaven a bent, beautiful bow, so long will the fascination of archery keep hold in the hearts of men.
Revenge never does anyone any good. Killing the person you hate will never ease the pain. Always look forward! Follow the path of light!
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep within my impenetrable self.
I find this a fascinating phenomenon: the ability we have to manipulate ourselves so that the foundation of our beliefs is never shaken.