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.

You want to come up with your own points of view first and then test them against what you see.

Here's the problem the Free Syrian Army has. They really want to topple the regime in Damascus, and this is where most of the fight takes place, between Aleppo and Damascus for the Free Syrian Army.

You prepare. You study. You've got to be ready for anything.

Aloha is the unconditional desire to promote the true good of other people in a friendly spirit out of a sense of kinship.

In the business of war, the role of women is really to maintain normalcy and ensure that there is cultural continuity.

Your insurance broker has your telephone number, but your insurance broker doesn't have your Facebook ID. I think they are very different modes of communication. Commingling them can come with risk and peril.

The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

For my own poor part, I go to great lengths to keep my nostrils sightly.

If I saw 'Virgin Suicides' or 'Eternal Sunshine,' I'm so proud to be in those movies. They are such great movies. I felt so free on those sets.

Dont let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. Youve got to set a high bar.

I knew Vincent Price from films - he was a big movie star - but the first time I met him was when we filmed 'The Oblong Box.'

We dont need holy wars. What we need is tolerance and brotherhood and simple humanity.

People shouldn't go broke making a haunted house. Or, we should pay for our enjoyment, definitely.

If I had walked into a dry cleaning store, and I had looked over, and the register drawer was open with money inside, I wouldn't have taken it.

I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up being too aware of that many shows or that many actors in shows. I was always obsessed with Judy Garland, though.

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader's eye. Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.

Spring is in the air.

It's hard for me to put my feelings into words.

The story of the decadence of the cathedral as a moral power, a spiritual energizer in civilization, is the sad but inevitable story of dogmatism. It is the story of the struggle of free thought with bigotry, religion making common cause with the wrong side.