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"When I was growing up - say in the fifties - the thirties to me didn't even exist. I couldn't even imagine them in any kind of way, so I don't expect anyone growing up now is gonna even understand what the sixties were all about, anymore than I could the thirties or twenties."
"Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be."
"I'll tell you that for me, one when someone used to say something that was true, one way I knew it was true was that I immediately felt defensive. I blocked it off, and I went to war with them in my mind and suffered all that goes with it. And they were only saying what was true."
"I really am a thinker. I don't do things rash. I know some of the things I've said or the way I act seem rash. But I do take ownership of it. I don't say things I don't mean."
"The way you think either expresses or undermines faith."
"Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick."
"The best way to convince someone is by making him realize that what you speak came from his own mind."
"The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass."
"You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way."
"The beauty of it is that we have to content ourselves with the recognition of the miracle, beyond which there is no legitimate way out."
"I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them."
"Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment."
"Beauty really has to do with the way a person carries it off"
"Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach."
"It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause."
"No matter what I've written, someone somewhere has come up to me and said, "Me too." The truth can be offensive, but it's always nourishing, in a way. You recognize it. You can feel it. And even if [readers] think, "My god, I would never get in those situations," within those ridiculous circumstances that I have created for myself, they know the way I respond is probably what they would do too."
"The best way to deal with AIDS is through education. So we need a really widespread AIDS education program. In fact, what we need in Burma is education of all kinds - political, economic, and medical. AIDS education would be just part of a whole program for education, which is so badly needed in our country."
"That's not how politics works - sometimes things move in a rather imperceptible way. There are no fireworks, and then comes a time when change comes unexpectedly. Sometimes change comes with a lot of fireworks, but not always."
"Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?"
"Obviously there's no way around discomfort, which is tucked into too many places in our lives. But it is possible to move beyond it."
