The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators, but traditionalists.
There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.
I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.
I try to impart this when people say they want to be a writer and they want to go into show biz. I say, "Well, have you taken any courses? You can't just have a passion for it; you have to prepare yourself for a life of it. "
I remember we had a visit by a helicopter at our school when I was in grade school, and I was punished that day and didn't get to see it. To this day, I am so mad I never got to see that helicopter land! I took my first ride in a helicopter recently, and that's what I thought, "Yes, finally the circle is complete!"
When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.
A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
I grew up in Michigan, so I played hockey, football and basketball. I played a little bit of lacrosse, too. My brother played more lacrosse and ran track.
The beauty of Catholicism is every human being's right.
In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.