It’s the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.

The rich and the poor truly are from different realms: one has adapted to become an expert in material forfeit; the other has forfeited all they are to material, and thus is enslaved, by it.

Briefly, in the act of composition, as an instrument there intervenes and is most potent, fire, flaming, fervid, hot; but in the very substance of the compound there intervenes, as an ingredient, as it is...

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique… completely separate entities.

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

It takes time, or does time take it?

A special validates you as a stand-up by documenting your material.

Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.

You begin with the possibilities of the material.

The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.

Sell your materials but save your morals.

When I was very young, I didn’t really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples’ jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and people like that. And then, for every comic, you develop...

In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been gathered from a section that was one of the first...

Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke’s law to the very bone. It explains:When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to its original position. But when it’s over stretched beyond its limit point, it loses...

You need to find the size of performance that’s appropriate to the material, appropriate to the shot, or appropriate to the scene.

Archive material is vital to the writer of historical fiction.

Your shyness alone will bring you more emotional and material losses than all of your other negative attributes.

Art is the conscious making of numinous phenomena. Many objects are just objects – inert, merely utilitarian. Many events are inconsequential, too banal to add anything to our experience of life. This is unfortunate, as...