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I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current
Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.
For me, a writer is already being the deuce of his mission, his occupation to society.
The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.
Personal adornment is the only cultural form that everybody in the world takes part in.
You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
When we really start to take a look at who we think we are, we become very grace prone.
The ultimate freedom from the nonexistent ego is to see that it is actually irrelevant.
You can't look at what's looking. You can't think about that which is prior to thought.
Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough.
It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.
Much of the really serious trouble in the world gets going with a sense of humiliation.
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.
The fact that we die, that makes life important. It's hard to take, but it's the truth.
I'm 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.
Take care what words you speak that follow “I am.” In so speaking you create your life.
I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.
I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.
When I watch medical shows or other shows where characters die, it kind of bums me out.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
Orthodoxy is the diehard of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget.
People will always tell stories. The publishing industry might vanish, but not stories.
I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.
We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.
Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.
I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.
Men hid behind religion to keep others from seeing how frightened they were, how inept.
Brutality to an animal is cruelty to mankind - it is only the difference in the victim.
Yet you should practice the greatest possible love and confidence in treating with Him.
Because you're here with me, Jack said. Any night that ends with that can't be that bad
In some ways, the challenge of staying political is to stay a dreamer at the same time.
Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.
Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.
Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
Israel is a fulfilled dream. Nothing that exists here existed here a hundred years ago.
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
If pornography releases sexual tension, why don't we send recipe books to the starving?
The more gay people can tell our stories, the more other people will accept gay people.
I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.
We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
Numbers tend to give the impression that there's more order in the world than there is.
I must say also that it's never worked to my disadvantage that I have long, blond hair.
To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.