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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.
Be a true representative of the goodness in your heart, and don't expect it to be easy or even noticed.
Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful.
Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.
I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.
Waiting does not exist in the experience of those who recognize the presence of love wherever they are.
Every choice before you represents the universe inviting you to remember who you are and what you want.
The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.
The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.
I believe that woman is the equal of man - if she is. That woman is no better than man - unless she is.
[On Washington, D.C.:] a town of successful men and the women they married before they were successful.
Photography is better than art. It is a solar phenomenon in which the artist collaborates with the sun.
Freedom of expression is no longer a political nicety, but a precondition for economic competitiveness.
A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good.
Training to be a therapist teaches you to shut up and listen, and that is certainly useful as a writer.
For the religious, Passover is the grateful remembrance of a homeward journey after years of suffering.
You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
There is neither a cure for nor a way to repair autism. There is no implant like there is for the deaf.
We can never afford to be complacent; there is no such thing as security when it comes to human rights.
It's what we call a dolce pazzia... a sweet madness. Once you feel it, you will never want to leave it.
That's such a thrill - a story I wrote at the beginning of my career, and it's still packin' the house.
A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual.
"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."
If you don't look at things through your concepts, you'll never be bored. Every single thing is unique.
Rare indeed, is the relationship in which the other is not cultivated for what one can get for oneself.
People kill for money or for power. But the most ruthless murderers are those who kill for their ideas.
While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.
I think a lot of gay people who are not dealing with their homosexuality get into right- wing politics.
It was what we Japanese called the onion life, peeling away a layer at a time and crying all the while.
I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.
…she smiles in an exhausted but warm sort of way, as though she is a brilliant sun in some other galaxy
This is what you should know about losing someone you love. They do not travel alone. You go with them.
And in my mind, this settles the issue. I would never drink cologne, and am therefore not an alcoholic.