There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
Listen, here it is: Technically, I never quit. I'm seven years late for work.
No matter how old you are, if a little kid hands you a toy phone. . . you answer it.
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.
Things like racism are institutionalized. You might not know any bigots. You feel like "well I don't hate black people so I'm not a racist," but you benefit from racism. Just by the merit, the color of your skin. The opportunities that you have, you're privileged in ways that you might not even realize because you haven't been deprived of certain things. We need to talk about these things in order for them to change.
What did the 5 fingers say to the face. S L A P!
I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?
The book that I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life
We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.
The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.