When I was making Storytelling, I couldn’t watch while the violent sex scene between the student and the professor was being shot. It was too intense.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man – the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse – the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon...

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

That is the strange thing; I don’t know if you want to call it the subconscious, but things that I don’t seem to notice are getting stored away.

Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.

All children have creative power.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to...

It was all luck and it all started with that radio piece. If it wasn’t for that, I’d probably still be cleaning apartments as a maid in New York.’

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I’m still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in...

The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.

Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.

For one thing there is the divinest, cleanest air to be breathed anywhere in God’s world.

The Jews struggled and stuck together. Their tenacity kept them alive. The fact that my book was a part of this struggle is my greatest achievement.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

I don’t like telling people where I stand on this, although I’m surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I’m pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let’s the audience off the hook, then...

Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.

To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he’s a machine, a walking dildo.

Travel definitely affects me as a writer.

Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.

The reason I formed my own band in the first place is so that I could step up as the singer.

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

I don’t want any more vicissitudes, I don’t want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already...

Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to...

Never get married in college; it’s hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you’ve already made one mistake.

I don’t think the scientific method and the science fictional method are really analogous. The thing about them is that neither is really practiced very much, at least not consciously. But the fact that they...

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Homophobia is gay.

Here’s a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

People don’t realize you’re blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it’s got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then...

There are many areas in the desert where drinkable water lies within a few feet of the surface, indicated by the mesquite and the bunch grass.

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

People can’t help how they look.

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Maybe it’s the hair. Maybe it’s the teeth. Maybe it’s the intellect. No, it’s the hair.

For me it was perfect, because it wasn’t a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we’ll help you improve it....

I’ve been in this business for a long time, and I no longer think that anything that I do by way of clarification is ever going to eradicate the mistakes.

More important than the Milner Group’s ability to influence opinion in the Dominions was its ability to influence decisions in London.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

I was in the Santa Rosa Musician’s Union. Get gigs, come out and play. Four or five guys who never played together show up and play dance music.

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

Burning dinner is not incompetence but war.

I have drawn inspiration from the Marine Corps, the Jewish struggle in Palestine and Israel, and the Irish.