When all actions are mathematically calculated, they also take on a stupid quality.
Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.
If you have the temerity to try to dramatize a theme that involves any particular social controversy currently extant. . . then you're in deep trouble.
Our greatest responsibility is not to be pencils of the past.
Ideas come from the Earth. They come from every human experience that you’ve either witnessed or have heard about, translated into your brain in your own sense of dialogue, in your own language form. Ideas are born from what is smelled, heard, seen, experienced, felt, emotionalized. Ideas are probably in the air, like little tiny items of ozone.
If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.
If you want to prove that God is not dead first prove that man is alive.
If you want intelligent children give them a book. If you want more intelligent children give them more books.
The distance from nothing to a little, is ten thousand times more, than from it to the highest degree in this life.
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The surprise is on the far side. " "You're sure?" "Positive. " "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with fairies?" "I've already seen about a billion of them and also they turned me into a walrus.