I've been to three Olympics and I don't feel I've ever quite achieved my best at any of them.
Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.
But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.
A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
I understand why Vladimir Putin is very popular in Russia - he's probably the first Russian leader to not apologize for being Russian. People always pin it down to one man, but there's hundreds of millions of Russians of various sorts. Putin does seem to be very popular in Russia, if only because he stands up for Russians wherever they are, which is exactly what Americans do with Americans, of course.
The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.
It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr. , C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien. ]