When you write a book, you want to have fidelity to the character. Characters and their emotions guide the structure of the novel.
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
Take the folks at Coca-Cola. For many years, they were content to sit back and make the same old carbonated beverage. It was a good beverage, no question about it; generations of people had grown up drinking it and doing the experiment in sixth grade where you put a nail into a glass of Coke and after a couple of days the nail dissolves and the teacher says: Imagine what it does to your TEETH! So Coca-Cola was solidly entrenched in the market, and the management saw no need to improve.
Scientists tell us that the fastest animal in the world, with a speed of 120 mph, is a cow dropped out of a helicopter.
A perfect parent is a person with excellent child-rearing theories and no actual children.
Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no need to involve your brain.
By the very fact of public life, one seems to lose humanity in people's eyes.
'Alien' is one of my all-time favorite horror films - that has a great monster.
For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.
If you never did anything for your own freedom, you're not worth a human being in my view.