In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
These days, it seems that if you're not already in place, you can't get there from here.
A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes.
When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms.
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not.
The Emrys! The Emrys is here!' Merlin shook his head in astonishment. 'Has it come to this?' he wondered. 'Even small children know me by sight.
I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.
First of all, there are Persians and Arabs. The fact they share a religion, a Shiite religion, does not mean that they're close. It doesn't work that way. There is a relationship because there is a long border. There is going to be trade between them. They should have a relationship. They want to make sure that - though, that there is no undue influence coming from Iran or any other country in the region.