So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.
Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.
I do a great deal of research - particularly in the apartments of tall blondes.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
Our main goal is to serve people as quickly as possible. You need to have towers where people need coverage.
Everyting negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well.
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.
But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture.