Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.
I can tell from about 20 yards away when someone has a manuscript for me. I can just tell - they have that look.
Actually what's worse than a dog's mouth is a cat's mouth. They're not dirtier per se, but they have sharper teeth, so they are much more likely to go deep, should they bite you.
Stand-up comedy had an interesting effect on me in terms of how I started to think about constructing things, because I really loved the interstices, the linkages, or lack thereof.
I've always been entranced with theater.
I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness. "
I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.
Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in.
Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.
Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
I think you can take the recent war in Lebanon as a very good example of how this plays. The Americans and their allies clearly stood back - clearly in the eyes of Muslims - and basically said to the Israelis, "Do what you need to do, and we'll hold the ring for you and not call a cease-fire. " That perception in the Muslim world very much played to the anti-American sentiment.