Well, you know, in America everybody is interested in making the dollar fast. In Yugoslavia no matter how much you hustle you're not going to get rich, so you might as well play chess.
A shy face is better than a forward heart.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
History is the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instructor of the present, and monitor to the future.
Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool.
The wicked are always ungrateful.
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics. ' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you something is broken that you can fix.
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.
You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.
A young person has to start making decisions for themselves at a much earlier age than an overbearing parent allows one.