For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
As an actor, I endeavor to find the reason in the unreasonable. Because no one thinks they are being unreasonable or unrealistic or demanding or behaving madly. We all see ourselves as being justified.
Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
You hate to listen me but good you listened me!! I Love you for the same reason you hated me!!!
They (the French) have taken genius instead of reason for their guide, adopted experiment instead of experience, and wander in the dark because they prefer lightning to light.
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.
It's perfectly reasonable in a coalition between two political parties that you get supporters of those parties you know stressing the things they want to stress.
I don't want the Latino community to think I think the reason Latino films are not doing well is because of us. It is not fully our responsibility.
Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.
But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion.
In retrospect, perhaps the biggest reason my mother was cared for but not helped for twenty years was the simplest: Her functioning was not that necessary to the world.
Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions, their reasons are always different.
As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I reasoned as a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
