What you think you become.
Such a courageous boy I was. To act brazenly under scrutiny and risk further injury to my wounded heart. Ah, the resilience, the blind, dumb persistence of youth.
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
Perhaps the way to succeed is to think of life on Earth as a colossal joke, a creation of such immense stupidity that the only way to live is to laugh until you think your heart will break.
I don't get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.
The way a film is made tells you about its message. The processes are the same as the products. We made the film starting from processes that allowed us to find these complex ideas.
Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Lets go inland and be killed.
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby in a month.
Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty. " -Percy