Franz Kafka Quotes
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Quotes to Explore
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I love Twitter.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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Grease and starch just always win over protein. In food as in so many things. Look around you, that's what our whole country is based on. It's amazing that Michael Jordan can be an iconic figure because he's basically just protein.
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I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
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I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered how I could measure up. I mean, how do you change the world - again?
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The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!
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If you don't have good people around you, it's going to be the worst thing for you.
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My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them.
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I compete in a sport on an individual basis, but I have never done it for me.
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Men are very competent in their workplace - and this is going to sound sexist - women are better at running households and juggling lots of things, kids and scheduling and that kind of thing.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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It's hard to act terrified when you have 200 crew members around you.
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I really like Lady GaGa and everything she is for her fans.
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A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.
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The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
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In Bosnia, the case was there were white, blond-haired, blue-eyed Muslims who were being slaughtered and identified as Muslims. That really touched me.
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
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I am hell-bent for the South Pole - God willing and crevasses permitting.
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That which hits the fan tends to get flung in all directions.
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I, for instance, regard any particular man as finite, as one who has had a beginning and who will have an end. He has been born, and he is going to die. In the meantime, he has a body that roots him to this time and this place.
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Audiences aren't going to get rid of me. One thing I can say, with absolute certainty, is that my shows will still be performed when I'm dead, buried and forgotten. They're going to absolutely outlive me, which is a wonderful thing to think about.
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Growth is a detox process, as our weakest, darkest places are sucked up to the surface in order to be released...often, it is not a change in partners but rather a change in perception that delivers us to the love we seek.
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic.
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One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
