TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.
I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
'Leave It to Beaver,' which ran from 1957 until 1963, was one of the strangest, sweetest, most distinctive domestic sitcoms of television's celebrated Golden Age.
What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Fue a partir de entonces, cuando yo fui MALA. Para todos, no. Para Tata Maria, Isabel, Jerónimo y Fabián, sólo un poco rara.
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
With respect to the requirement of art, the probable impossible is always preferable to the improbable possible.
Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.
There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?
I just think people overvalue argument because they like to hear themselves talk.
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
It is no secret that I have read 'The Da Vinci Code' several times. I genuinely believe that 'The Da Vinci Code' and 'Angels And Demons' are, by far, Brown's best works.
You decide which characters you want and then do the best you can to bring their humanity to the forefront in the context that you place them in - the crises in which you've placed them.
Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.
Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.
Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.
