They wrote that I'd gained 30 pounds over the summer and lost it in a week because I was dating three guys at once!
Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.
The truth isn't the truth until people believe you, and they can't believe you if they don't know what you're saying, and they can't know what you're saying if they don't listen to you, and they won't listen to you if you're not interesting, and you won't be interesting unless you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.
We are so busy measuring public opinion that we forget we can mold it. We are so busy listening to statistics we forget we can create them.
It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature. . . what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.
Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.
Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.
Bethlehem was just the beginning. I call Jesus Christ's next appearance, Bethlehem, Act 2. No silent night this time, however. The skies will open, trumpets will blast, and a new kingdom will begin.