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Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.
I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
But it is not really difference the oppressor fears so much as similarity.
Cynicism was a one-way path, and once taken the way back was lost forever.
The actors have confidence in me to let me lead them to unexpected things.
As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
When I was a teenager I was a total romantic escapist. My world was books.
The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.
We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.
Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.
Two men looked out from prison bars, One saw the mud, the other saw stars.
I would say that all short stories have mystery naturally built into them.
When you ten, you know more about your team than you ever will know again.
When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.
If you grew up in the 60's or 70's, and didn't do drugs I don't trust you.
Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.
Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.
I'm never going to be in danger of getting the Nobel Prize for literature.
Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.
This is our grace: To be a note In the exact chord that animates creation.
The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.
Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others
Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.
It's a lucky child that knows that they're a genius, unaimed and all that.
Safety comes in our nearness to God, not in our distance from our enemies.
Be willing to die for your beliefs, or computer printouts of your beliefs.
I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.
When I turned fifty, I decided to quit the mill and go to graduate school.
I'm probably the least cerebral guy you're ever going to meet as a writer.
You have to live life if you're going to create believable lives on paper.
Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.
I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
Only by counting could humans demonstrate their independence of computers.
Here, for whatever reason, is the world. And here it stays. With me on it.
He felt like an old sponge steeped in paraffin and left in the sun to dry.
You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
And still I persist in wondering whether folly must always be our nemesis.
One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you, and do it fast.
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.