I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
When you crop the photo, you tell a lie.
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
I say ‘Uhmm. . . ’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.
Feeling unique is no indication of uniqueness.
Star Trek characters never go shopping.
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a little application to the rules and orders of the House [of Commons], throw obvious thoughts in a new light, and make up the whole with a large quantity of purity, correctness and elegancy of style. Take it for granted that by far the greatest part of mankind neither analyze nor search to the bottom; they are incapable of penetrating deeper than the surface.
What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.
I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, I should make more of an effort. I should look like that. But then I think, They can't be happy in those heels.
The environment becomes inspiration. My response to it becomes idea. And idea becomes purpose and action through interpretation and painting.