“Being poor is like being a child. Being rich is like being an adult: you get to do whatever you want. Everyone is nice when they have to be; rich people are nice when they feel like it.”
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People Quotes — page 648 of 5018
“Life was certainly more entertaining when people were indulging their vices as opposed to going to meetings to indulge in a new vice: discussing their innermost thoughts in public.”
“Things that people will say to me, mostly, is that you shouldn't have all these books. It's too expensive.”
“It is not true that there is dignity in all work. Some jobs are definitely better than others.... People who have good jobs are happy, rich, and well dressed. People who have bad jobs are unhappy, poor and use meat extenders. Those who seek dignity in the type of work that compels them to help hamburgers are certain to be disappointed.”
“Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??”
“New York City is filled with the same kind of people I left New Jersey to get away from.”
“When you reach a certain age, suddenly there are lots of people younger than you, which is really startling.”
“I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.”
“You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain.”
“People ask me what my predictions are for publishing and how digital is changing things and I tell them my only real prediction is that is it's all changing. Amazon, Google and all of those things probably aren't the enemy. The enemy right now is simply refusing to understand that the world is changing.”
“There are people who think that things that happen in fiction do not really happen. These people are wrong.”
“People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.”
“One of the great things about humor is, you can slip things past people with humor, you can use it as a sweetener. So you can actually tell them things, give them messages, get terribly, terribly serious and terribly, terribly dark, and because there are jokes in there, they'll go along with you, and they'll travel a lot further along with you than they would otherwise.”
“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”
“In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.”
“People pursue things. As soon as they have them they run away from them.”
“Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.”
“There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that, but you are the only you.”
“In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.”
“I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them.”