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Nobody's going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can't always be in the fast lane.
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.
Wasn't he the one who said you shouldn't trust anybody who calls himself an ordinar man? - Naoko
It is very simple, actually. It is because you and Tengo were so powerfully drawn to each other.
So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?
The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape.
So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.
You know what it’s like when you’re trying to fall asleep and it only makes you more wide awake?
Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.
The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself
As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.
We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.
Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.
I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption.
...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.
Emerson then incarnated the moral optimism, the progress, and the energy of the American spirit.
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo
At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.
The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.
You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]
I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.
Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.
People in a cluster are bound to each other automatically, and can see each other automatically.
A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.
Frodo: Go back, Sam! I’m going to Mordor alone. Sam: Of course you are, and I’m coming with you!
Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.
I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day.
Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun
Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)
Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
A soul,--a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth.
Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something
To set a forest on fire, you light a match. To set a character on fire, you put him in conflict.
I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.
There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.
Knowledge pursued for its own sake - that's the definition of education, as opposed to training.
That's one of the things I like about Mary Lou. She's willing to believe the worst about anyone.
... people who don't want something are less likely to get it than people who do want something.
I spent my life navigating systems built upon me - a black child in America - not making it out.
Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.
Software breaks before it bends, so it demands perfection in a universe that prefers statistics.
Spirituality is committing suicide. Consciousness is attempting to will itself out of existence.
The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 issues.
I was too weak to walk. At least, I thought I was too weak. But in truth, I was too weak to try.
Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.
The Buddha’s dharma didn’t teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.