Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate.
Like timidity, bravery is also contagious.
Trust is the first step to love.
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Trust begets trust and untrust begets untrust. It's natural.
On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.
SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.
The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.
The climate is obviously changing dramatically.