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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
I really love being in postproduction. First of all, it's all quite self-interested: You can protect things.
I just happen to know quite a lot of what happened in Czechoslovakia between 1968 and the fall of Communism.
I've never seen a great actor do a major role that didn't cost a lot. They're sacrificial animals of a sort.
What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.
Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]
A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.
The thing I longed for as a teenager is now an object of neglect and scorn. I've grown to hate my telephone.
The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.
Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are.
In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
I think women need kindness more than love. When one human being is kind to another, it's a very deep matter.
And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: Can't live with them, or without them.
I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.
Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.
People do look to others for some leadership, and it's not bad for them to supply it when they feel that way.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
I'm not a good storyteller - I much prefer to be with people who are chatty, to have the luxury of listening.
Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
I usually think about a play anywhere from six months to a year and a half before I sit down to write it out.
I’m infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life.
I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
...and her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay parties.
Magic is in her just as it is in Dickon," said Colin. "It makes her think of ways to do things - nice things.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them.
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal
People expect someone with the name 'Israel Horovitz' to be a little old man with sideburns carrying a Torah.
I was filled with dread at the thought my mind had skipped town and left me behind to pay the rent." --Dexter
Every play is so important. It's a record of what life was like at the time you wrote that play or that book.
You can't kind of take away, you either do or you don't. If you kind of take away something you're a failure.
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.
Playwrights are the most gregarious writers - to get our work done, we need actors, directors, set designers.
I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.
It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.
Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.