They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

They think I'm going to be a schoolteacher but I'm going to be a poet.

From the first place of liquid darkness, within the second place of air and light, I set down the following record with its mixture of fact and truths and memories of truths and its direction toward the Third Place, where the starting point is myth.

They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep.

I like to see life with its teeth out.

For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Electricity, the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

Electricity the peril the wind sings to in the wires on a gray day.

Your heart is very much connected to your mind.

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

It is our character that supports the promise of our future - far more than particular government programs or policies.

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.

I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.

The United Nations has long sought the ability to raise revenues in this manner as a means of reducing its reliance on American and other member nations' dues to sustain the UN's operations.

Strength lies in differences not in similarities.

In all seriousness, people think that it's the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words - that's how long a novel is.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational radically darkened art.

The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen.

'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.

When any fat is heated to frying temperatures toxic volatile chemicals that can cause genetic mutations are released into the air.

It's always more fun when something happens outside of a script.

Hospitality should have no other nature than love.

Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.

In all my perplexities and distresses the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

I have actually lost a couple of roles - film roles - because a director or producer thought I looked too much like George Costanza, and I could not get out of that box.

Economy does not consist in saving the coal but in using the time while it burns.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Attributing feelings to inanimate things is probably a symptom of only-child-ness. Who else to talk to when the parents fight except walls and banisters and things?

You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

I do believe very strongly that all of us and all of the other things in the context of our planet with Mother Nature, all of these things absolutely have a profound effect.

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.