The judicial system is the most expensive machine ever invented for finding out what happened and what to do about it.
If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.
When I lived in Hong Kong, I felt that Hong Kong is my family.
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.
When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.
Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.
In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not.
Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
It's a joy to be recognized and to have people that are interested in what you do. That can pick up your whole day.
Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.
The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine.
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.