Charles Dickens Quotes
"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
Quotes to Explore
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.
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On a personal basis, when I decided to become a writer, about the last reason I did it was because I thought I'd meet interesting people and make new friends. But that has turned out to be the very best part.
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Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?
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The Thing of the idols, the green, sticky spawn of the stars, had awaked to claim his own. The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.
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When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.
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I think that even though some of the things on 'Humans of New York' are kind of very personal and very revealing, I think the discomfort with sharing that tends to be overwritten by the appreciation of being able to distill the experience of your life into a story and share it with other people.
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I like feeling out of my depth.
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Trade may raise GDP. But it does make some people worse off.
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I'm lucky that it's about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I don't know what I would have done.
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We're trying to get the world to see it's not always about the outside, it's about the inside.
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All of us, we deserve to survive.
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I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.
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It is always nice to reflect on how one started.
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The thing is, I love a great death scene - no good actor doesn't. Sorry, any actor, I should say.
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One thing you learn: if you want to reveal yourself, you also have to know where to stop.
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It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle.
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Terrorism and religious extremism are huge challenges. They go hand in glove.
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There is always a bit of pressure to do a good album - to do good work, period. I really put a lot of pressure on myself, more so than other people. But I try not to let that overwhelm me to the point where I can't even do good work. I just put it aside and do the best that I know that I can.
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Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.
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I am asked often about Abraham Lincoln's mistakes and faults; he certainly made some mistakes. I have chapter in President Lincoln about the Powhatan affair that was a royal screw-up in the early days - right alongside the Sumter affair. Lincoln signed letters he should not signed, and the ship was sent to two places at one under two captains etc. Fortunately, no great harm. Lincoln took the blame and did not do anything like that again.
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"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."
