In order to be a writer, first you must become an alive dead spirit.
When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.
Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.
My parents are Polish. I dont know anything about Italian-ness.
I went to prep school, Eton and Oxford. When people hear that, they think they know you, and you think: No, you dont.
Part of George R. R. Martins brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
Lecturing is that mysterious process by means of which the contents of the note-book of the professor are transferred through the instrument of the fountain pen to the note-book of the student without passing through the mind of either.
Also, there are seats in the diner that always fall off the table. If you have a scene where you're packing up at the end of the day and putting them on the table, they just slide off.
As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.
I tell the truth and I don't try to sugarcoat things. But I also decided that if you don't use humor or satire, then it's just too dark all the time. And one of my favorite literary works is A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. As you know, that was an enormously famous satire piece that was able to point out, you know, things to people in a different way. And I do believe that satire and humor can reveal truth in a way that sometimes doesn't get revealed through other means. And so I decided to, every now and then, use satire and humor as well.
Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists - talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.