Plays, especially great plays, yield their secrets over a long period of time. You can't read it three times and say, 'OK, I got it. I know what's happening.'
And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody.
All great political families have myths: stories they tell themselves about how history happened.
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.
Science fiction is the great opportunity to speculate on what could happen. It does give me, as a futurist, scenarios.
Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it.
If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
Nothing good ever happens by itself - it is achieved through striving, though this sometimes bears a high price.
A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.
Have you ever noticed when you start getting happy, you say, uh-uh, I'd better watch out. I feel too good. Something's going to happen.
If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.
People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.
It's not good if owners of sports teams are talking to sports journalists, bypassing the manager. That goes in the wrong direction wherever it happens. Therefore, I'll refrain from doing this at all.
When you hire good people, and you provide good jobs and good wages and a career, good things are going to happen.
If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.
There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why, when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around, and it made good TV.
I eventually realized that good things wouldn't happen to me if I didn't make the right choices.
I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.
I happened to be one of those who thought all these expenses necessary, and I had the good fortune to have the majority of both houses of Parliament on my side.
I think everything should happen at halfway to dawn. That's when all the heads of government should meet. I think everybody would fall in love.
