"I hate writing. I will do anything to avoid it. The only way I could write less was if I was dead."
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"One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are."
"You must take action yourself, for Buddhas only teach the way."
"Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony."
"Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately."
"Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise."
"You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look."
"I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!"
"I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'."
"Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened."
"You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all."
"If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not."
"Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God."
"Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills."
"Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by all; there is typically a fringe of dissidents. With very rare exceptions - in fact, it's hard to think of any - they suffer in one or another way; how depends on the nature of the society."
"NAFTA was much more popular among US corporations than GATT, because NAFTA is highly protectionist in ways that GATT is not."
"We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act."
"You go your way I'll go your way too"
"Every rejection is incremental payment on your dues that in some way will be translated back into your work."
"We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others."