Michael Scofield is someone everyone can relate to, but nobody would want to be in his shoes.
I carry a gun cause a cop is too heavy.
With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.
The redwoods, once seen, leave a mark or create a vision that stays with you always. No one has ever successfully painted or photographed a redwood tree. The feeling they produce is not transferable. From them comes silence and awe. It's not only their unbelievable stature, nor the color which seems to shift and vary under your eyes, no, they are not like any trees we know, they are ambassadors from another time.
And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.
The camera need not be a cold mechanical device. Like the pen, it is as good as the man who uses it. It can be the extension of mind and heart.
Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
Let me get this straight," I say. "You're practically ordering me to die. What kind of guidance counselor are you?
Art is either revolution or plagiarism
I see no objection to stoutness, in moderation.
It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.