Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.

When writing fiction, you learn to only put things and characters in, that are going to progress your story. There is something to be learned about that approach in real life

Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you.

This communist talk is so confusing

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

He told us that most of us would die violently, and those who did not would be brought down to the level of beasts.

It is not enough that our life is an easy one. We must live on the stretch, retiring to our rest like soldiers on the eve of a battle, looking forward to the strenuous sortie of the morrow.

You influence your surroundings every bit as much as they influence you.

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

There are not that many people in the movies today that really make me go out and buy a movie ticket.

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.