Medication without explanation is obscene.
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
We mistrust anything that too strongly challenges our ideal of mediocrity.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing.
What do you mean you live someplace where there aren’t any humans? (Danger) In a realm far away from here. (Alexion) Is that like in star Wars? A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away? Want to tell me where your Tatooine is located? Is it anywhere in this universe? Near Toledo maybe? The one in Ohio or Spain? I’m not picky. Can I MapQuest it? (Danger)
Having started out in theatre, I feel an impulse to do it as much as I can
. . . nets, grids, and other types of calculus.
There's no photo-shoot academy. If there was, I'd probably be kicked out.