One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be.

Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.

Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.

I am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.

Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out of touch with their creative powers.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

Hearsay, even from the people I love, doesn't equate to gospel truth.

My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Not all smart people work at Sun Microsystems.

There's a special part of Messi's brain allowing him to see the split-second chaos of football in his own personal super slow motion.

There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.

There's a lot of talk about division right now in America, and I really want to unite people and go like: 'Those are my problems, too, I feel that, too."

The existing system will be quickest and most radically overthrown by the annihilation of its exponents. Therefore, massacres of the enemies of the people must be set in motion.

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

Oh, I get it, it's simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and 18 means everybody gets the girl.