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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right.
The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.
All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice.
Cultivating relationships with people who've achieved what you want to achieve makes the path fuller and more fun.
I teach at Columbia, and I'm always looking for books I can lose myself in during the 45 minutes I'm on the train.
It's the periods and the commas that you have to forget about. The words never change, but the intonations change.
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.
It's funny - there's nothing that stops you laughing like the sight of other people laughing about something else.
Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.
This was the story of Howard Beale: The first known instance of a man who was killed because he had lousy ratings.
It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!
Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart
There are so many people from many different classes and ways of life who converge in one space to make a musical.
After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.
I don't believe that we evolved moral psychology; it just doesn't seem plausible to me as a biological phenomenon.
I loved the Beatles when they turned up, and the Stones when they turned up, and never really stopped liking them.
God knows I've had productions where there were actors in my plays who were making more money per week than I was.
If you feel like you're in control of everything, and then things aren't going well, you feel like you're failing.
One of the things you hope you've done as a playwright is create roles that can sustain different interpretations.
A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
The first duty of a woman is to be pretty, the second is to be well-groomed, and the third is never to contradict.
The day which we fear as our last is but the bday of eternity. - By SenecaThe first hundred years are the hardest.
What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.
No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.
After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?
My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Baraka, and Bearden.
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do.
Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.
Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.
Work restores humankind and all its attributes to the savage animal condition that was its original intended state.
Strictly speaking, there are no holidays for art; art pursues you everywhere, and that's just fine with the artist.
When I write, I have always tried to be on the side of the weak. The side of the powerful is not literature's side.
Why do British people make such good TV? It's so annoying. Stop it. Is it because they have free health care? Uggh.
In America, we have a government that is now run by white nationalists, by billionaires, by incredible misogynists.