It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.
I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will occur, and this fact has a curious effect on my argument. In a strange way it makes my argument an optimistic one. Although things a...
And that's what love is, I suppose. The one thing that is most worth hoping for, and the one thing that's most surprising when it lands. Because it's better. It exceeds hope, makes hope nearsighted.
One of the things you get to do as a writer is that you get to learn new stuff all the time, and I hope that I'm a better writer when I'm 70 than I was when I was 30. That's one of the great things about a literary career.
No matter how bad things get, never allow your thoughts to convince you to settle for the way things are at the moment. If you keep pushing forward with faith and perseverance, sooner or later things could become a lot better than you desire them to ...
And one more thing: Sometimes comfort doesn’t matter. When a shoe is freakin’ fabulous, it may be worth a subsequent day of misery. Soak in Epsom salts and take comfort in the fact that you’re better than everyone else.
If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.
The only thing better than being productive, is being reproductive.
Much of what we call History is the success stories of madmen.
you can take this mouth this wound you want but you can't kiss and make it better.
What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
I have a notion that if you are going to be spiritually curious, you better not get cluttered up with too many material things.
I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.
You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.
The great thing about acting is that, until you're dead, you can do it. There are aspects to it that as time goes on you hope you get better at, and there are a lot of things that I'm excited to explore.
We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.
There are always things that I'd love to do. As an actor, none of them are specific; all I'm looking for are things that are good quality, that are challenging for me to work on, and even better if I get to work with people that I respect and am exci...
The thing I tried to remember when I was younger was 'Do something that's at least as good, if not better, than the last thing you did.' So I started with Brian De Palma and Sean Penn. I had a pretty high bar to start with.
I've always tried to live in the future and think about things and how to make things better. If you have great-grandchildren around, and their pictures are looking at you, well, that's the future.
It's time for us to start appreciating the little things in our lives that we normally take for granted. They usually lead to bigger and better blessings.
It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.
