Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
I try to trace the connection between the characters and that way a story or plot emerges.
The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way.
The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.
I don't like candy bars. I eat the big rectangular bars. You know - anything between 85 and 50 percent cocoa.
A wise mother is the unifying force between father and children; her seed of love produces a harvest of trust.
All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk.
Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.
J.J. Abrams and I met, and we just had this incredible kind of vibe between us.
The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.
In the past there was a difference between the conditions in which Hizballah operated in Lebanon and the conditions of resistance operated in Palestine.
I love Edit. He gives me tons of second chances to make things just right between us.
When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.
Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.
Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship - positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.
In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.'
