When I try to portray to myself my heart's desire, nothing happens.
I read as many books about the psychology of a psychopath as I could and I researched what exactly happens to soldiers.
Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.
My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly. . . The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.
Nothing happens until something moves.
I can't see the Democrats working with Donald Trump on tax reform unless the rich get soaked. The thing about this that should be worrisome is that if this alliance happens, if they're not bluffing, if they're serious, and if my scenario gets close, it's not gonna be the Democrats adopting Trump's agenda. It's gonna be the other way around.
Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.
Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.
Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all that is beautiful and that which is not beautiful. In that acceptance a transcendence happens and one becomes free.
[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director andor the writer are open to that.
The happiest moment of my life happens once a day.
A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness.
The world is teeming; anything can happen.
Those who want to "spread the wealth" almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?
Nothing happens randomly.
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
When I know that I have played as well as I can. It doesn't matter so much whether I have won or lost. But being completely satisfied with myself? That's something that never really happens to me.
I'm sure even in America, where you have, like, free speech people self-censor themself. And it's not - it happens because of different reasons. Because maybe it's politically incorrect, it doesn't have to really to be put in jail.
I just know that something good is going to happen. I don't know when - but just saying it could even make it happen.