Now we understand much more clearly. why people from all over the world want to come to New York and to America. It's called freedom.
No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.
Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.
. . . looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat. ' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes--
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it.
For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.
After all a book can be represented as a conversation with one’s demon.
Our job is to make change. Our job is to connect to people, to interact with them in a way that leaves them better than we found them, more able to get where they'd like to go. Every time we waste that opportunity, every page or sentence that doesn't do enough to advance the cause is waste.
My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
You do trust him, though, Giddon?" "Holt, who is stealing your sculptures and is of questionable mental health?" "Yes. " "I trusted him five minutes ago. Now I'm at a bit of a loss. " "Your opinion five minutes ago is good enough for me.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.