Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

I don't know anywhere in the world where there is not racism against somebody.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

Time is measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

I am the Soul. I am the Light Divine. I am Love. I am Will. I am Fixed Design.

Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.

Being Irish-American myself, Irish-American material is readily at hand to me.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

We all work hard to understand the dynamic relationship we have with a parent.

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Time is a great ocean which, like the other ocean, overflows with our remains.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does.

Like every other self-respecting academic, I'm distrustful of self-help books.

Hindi writing, as well as Hindi journalism, is a great gift to Indian writing.

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

Twitter is currently valued at $8 billion, or $1 for every hour it has wasted.

Don't take a butcher's advice on how to cook meat. If he knew, he'd be a chef.

Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.

Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others

I'm always on the lookout for something good about people. Often months go by.

I think about the hurt that stories cannot ease, not with a thousand tellings.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.

I was attracted to people who were funny because I wanted to be in that world.

I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other.

Although I have two good Anglepoise lights, I much prefer to work by daylight.

Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

The more clearly you write, the more easily and surely you will be understood.

I am not taking away the historical legacy, but it should not become a burden.

I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers

My apartment is basically a couch, an armchair, and about four thousand books.

The theater itself is not revolutionary: it is a rehearsal for the revolution.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

Any product of the mind is a reaction of the past, a synthesis of what is old.

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

To protest free speech in the name of protecting women is dangerous and wrong.

Visualizing the movement finally got me over the top after months of practice.

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

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