If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside
I've read that it's the smell some carnivores use to find their prey. Imagine the trembling victim trying to hide, but knowing that the smell of its own fear will kill it.
What is worse? Taking the life of a person who wants to live or taking death from a person who wants to die.
Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living.
Everything you do leaves traces, doesn't it. The life you've lived is written all over you, for those who can read.
As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don't want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I'd rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before 'thin'. And frankly, I'd rather they didn't give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls.
When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.
Fox News has effectively become the establishment. Fox has - you know, during non-election years, really tended to out flank the Republican Party in many ways in its conservatism and yet sort of lists back a little towards the, let`s say right-center establishment type figures in part because Rupert Murdock, whose Ailes`s ultimate boss over at 21st Century Fox, is a bit more pragmatic and centrist than Ailes himself.
There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.