Madoka: I want to erase the tears of all those who trusted in hope. I want them to be left with a smile on their faces.

Kyōko: You... you call yourself human?!Homura: Of course not. Neither are you.

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Start early and work hard. A writer's apprenticeship usually involves writing a million words (which are then discarded) before he's almost ready to begin. That takes a while.

When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.

It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

Turns out, that's how it is with weddings. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper until you want to throw up.

It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.

Nothing symbolizes American strength and vigor more than another unaccountable Washington bureaucrat.

If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.

We can afford no liberties with liberty itself.

It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?