"You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world."
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"One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well."
"Times change, we need to change as well."
"I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society."
"What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, “It’s all your fault!"
"What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical."
"The social rights of children must be recognized so that a world suited to their needs may be constructed for them. The greatest crime that society commits is that of wasting the money which it should use for children on things that will destroy them and society itself as well."
"The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them."
"She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was."
"Young love needs dangers and barriers to nourish it."
"Give what you can, take what you need."
"The patient needs an experience, not an explanation."
"We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it."
"There's a perilous word fiction writers need to watch out for. The word is 'had.'"
"Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires."
"As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes."
"He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities."
"Pause and remember - If you just keep moving forward, everything you need will show up for you at the perfect time."
"There are images I need to complete my own reality."
"Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill."