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"I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy."
"I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time."
"the existence of broccoli does not in any way affect the taste of chocolate"
"Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way."
"Gradually work your way towards the hard stuff. That will help you avoid injury and you'll be most likely to stick with it."
"You can tell whether a person plays well or not by the way he carries the instrument, whether it means something to him or not."
"Silence gives us a new way of looking at something."
"The irony is this: Our bodies react to stress in exactly the same way whether or not we have a good reason for being stressed. The body doesn't care if we're right or wrong. Even in those times when we feel perfectly justified in getting angry - when we tell ourselves it's the healthy response - we pay for it just the same"
"The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that."
"Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness."
"I must confess that I am interested in leisure in the same way that a poor man is interested in money."
"The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga."
"There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures."
"I've always believed that clothing is a great way to tell your story."
"Fiction becomes a weird way to countenance yourself and to tell the truth instead of being a way to escape yourself or present yourself in a way you figure you will be maximally likable."
"I'm a tad paranoid. I think the person in front of me is following me the long way round."
"God made me the way that I am and it’s my business to be true to that."
"The writer's way is rough and lonely, and who would choose it while there are vacancies in more gracious professions, such as, say, cleaning out ferryboats?"
"The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new."
"Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission."
