So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.

I've been awed by the incredible opportunities that automatically float to the Harvard undergrads I once taught - from building homes for the poor in Nicaragua to landing prime White House internships.

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There's no rule that you have to like Henry Rollins the musician or the actor.

Unless and until a man does not stop wasting his energy in seeking sensual pleasures he will not be able to achieve anything substantial.

Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.

I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.

The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.

People were very affected by the war. But it didn't mean you stopped painting unless you were called into the Army; then you just couldn't paint. But otherwise one continued.

Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.

I'm very content to have great management and a great label. But for me, success started when my managers came to me and told me, 'Go ahead and quit your job.' I told them, 'As long as I don't have to wash dishes anymore, I'm good.'

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

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Sexists refer to every female political opinion as hysterical, just like they refer to every word a woman says when she opens her mouth as shouting, and for the same reasons not because the women are actually being loud or unreasonable, but because women are not supposed to have opinions or voices at all.

Unemployment is a great tragedy. The man who goes about hopelessly seeking work in order to earn bread for his children is a living reproach to civilization.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

For me, there was nothing like my time with the Eagles - ever. We were young, and the world was new to us. It was the happiest time of our lives. They wouldn't let us play in their big leagues, but we had this game of ours... this marvelous, blessed game... and we just went out and played it.

When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.

I'm going to be who I am. And if you find it offensive, if you find it to be too tough, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

Nine books have been written about me, and there's not a word of truth in any of them.