Explosions are not comfortable.

Explosions are not comfortable.

Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.

Dogma static positions consonance all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art at least in its more complex forms.

True literature can exist only where it is created not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries but by madmen hermits heretics dreamers rebels and skeptics.

Who knows who you are ... A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading to the very end.

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom.

The knife is the most permanent, the most immortal, the most ingenious of man's creations. The knife was a guillotine; the knife is a universal means of resolving all knots.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

I couldn't have come close without my teammates' help because the Knicks didn't want me to make 100.

The worst mistake a boss can make is not to say well done.

I remember when I was in graduate school and someone in workshop would say, 'I'm going to bring in a chapter of my novel.' The thought that someone could think they'd write a whole long thing... I could only see twelve pages ahead. But then I realized that if you could see twelve more after that, you can start.

Managerial discretion can take many forms, some very subtle. Individual managers may run slack operations; they may pursue subgoals that are at variance with corporate purposes; they can engage in self-dealing.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

You're made aware of what the industry is and what you need to conform to; I don't fit that, and I'm never going to.

Being myself includes taking risks with myself taking risks on new behavior trying new ways of being myself so that I can see who it is I want to be.

Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.

My fans are truly my friends.

Hillary Clinton is a corrupt career politician who has recklessly handled classified information in an attempt to avoid accountability and put American lives at risk, including those of my former colleagues. She fails the basic tests of judgment and ethics any candidate for president must meet.

Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

Contrary to Eastern Europe, where the border was more porous and you could exchange information more easily, Cuba is an island. Thus, it is more isolated, and it's easier for the government to have great control over its citizens.

Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

I didn't run for office to make friends.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

I am worthy of great things in my life.

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

You’re all my heart ever talks about.

I fall in love every time. And I don't really fall in love a lot, but when I do, I fall hard.

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time.

Most of the comedies I've done have been rather farcical and extravagant.