Good poets borrow, great poets steal
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It’s almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
I think people who make movies and have invested a lot of money in them, get frightened that if they challenge an audience they are going to repel them. And I think the opposite it's really true. It takes confidence and courage to know that and then commit to it.
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
The best way to GET forgiveness is to GIVE forgiveness.
Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. . . They realized they couldn't beat us. . .