Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
The two most important things in any company do not appear in its balance sheet: its reputation and its people.
The way to learn to do things is to do things. The way to learn a trade is to work at it. Success teaches how to succeed. Begin with the determination to succeed, and the work is half done already.
Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet.
Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it.
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Worshippers of light ancestral make the present light a crime.