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There's what people say, and there's what people mean, and I like to explore the difference between the two.
Everyone has secrets, and I think some people flee from home - far from home - to try to keep those secrets.
I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.
And he was like "The sedative in the blood, blah, blah, four hours, blah, blah, nerdspeak, geektalk -" -Abby
I've made a dog's breakfast of English history, geography, 'King Lear,' and the English language in general.
Society is not just the product of its individual members; it is also the product of its constituent groups.
The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
The visionary disciplines himself to see the world always as if he had only just seen it for the first time.
Too much success gets you resting on your laurels and creates a kind of quicksand that you can't get out of.
Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.
Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.
The problem with learning the truth about things is that you lose the confidence that comes from being dumb.
The only way on Earth to influence other people is to talk about what they want and show them how to get it.
It is not like a premonition of death. It is as if she died a long time ago, and she just now remembered it.
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.
I'm saying that the WMD reporting was not consciously evil. It was bad journalism, even very bad journalism.
Right, but there's expertise and then there's inside information. And I think we have to make a distinction.
You realize you're alive while you're alive, and you better notice it then, because later, it's hard to see.
It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.
I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.
Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?
One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.
Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?
I thought you said you were the one in charge!" Ce'Nedra exclaimed. I lied." Silk said. "It's a vice I have.
To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.
I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.
Because muscle is heavier than fat, dancers weigh more than you might think, but they are usually very lean.
Teen readers can see aspects of themselves in the teen authors, which in a way, validates their experiences.
Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Everyone leaves a legacy, whether they want to or not. The question is, “What kind of legacy will you leave?
None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.
I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America.
Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.
I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness that is absolutely awesome.
Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does.
If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?
We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.
She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.
If something doesn't creep into a drawing that you're not prepared for, you might as well not have drawn it.
Women were complicated creatures. Any man who thought he had one figured out simply wasn't paying attention.
Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.