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Mickey Mouse did not stay the little squeaky guy in 'Steamboat Willie.' He went on to have many different versions.
When I begin a story at my desk, the window to my back, the path is not there. As I start to walk, I make the path.
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself.
What you can do with a short story that you can't do with a novel is punch someone in the gut, in the best of ways.
Here God is not approached as an object that we must love, but as a mystery present in the very act of love itself.
In a strange way, you have to have a certain amount of distance from a thing in order to be able to write about it.
A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.
If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.
I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken.
You're sure he's not a vampire?' Claire said.'I've seen movies. They're sneaky.' She was kidding. Eve didn't smile.
Hello! Your dear father is unfortunately very dead," he called. "And you said my dispersal system would never work!
Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.
Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
Painting fulfills a need to be non-intellectual. There are times when we have to get our brains out in our fingers.
The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!
I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.
Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.
I relax my body completely, relax my mind completely, and then imagine myself at a level where anything can happen.
Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.
Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.
Thy love is Singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ, and thou dost find joy and comfort in no other thing.
After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.
The heart and soul of good writing is research; you should write not what you know but what you can find out about.
People are all at sixes and sevens with each other. They're always quarreling. They never somehow resolve anything.
I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.
A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does.
Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative; resentment is poisoning; resentment diminishes and devours the self.
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both.
It's amazing how important your job is when you want the day off - and how unimportant it is when you want a raise.
Some instinct - and I think it was a correct one - led me to do something difficult enough to give my life meaning.
In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.
In the 1920s you could buy stocks on margin. You could put 10 percent down and borrow the rest against your stocks.
A crash really occurs when you suddenly have a violent downturn in the market that then heralds a long bull market.
Good bones are important, so it is wise to go slowly and get your plan right before launching into a vital project.
People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.
I don't want the whole of my writing or my intellectual energy given over to race because I have diverse interests.
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story.
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
It was through cooking food and sharing it with each other that our ancestors learned how to become social animals.
I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad.
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
Printer's ink, when it spells out a doctor's promise to cure, is one of the subtlest and most dangerous of poisons.