Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
It is always as it was between Achilles and Homer: one person has the experience, the sensation, the other it. A real writer only gives words to the affects and experiences of others; he is an artist in divining a great deal from the little that he h...
We were poor back then. Not living in a cardboard carton poor, not “we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald's was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter...
There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction. As Police Commissioner it was my duty to deal with all kinds of squalid misery and hideous and unspeakable in...
I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason. A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy...
I never really had to deal with a death in the family, let alone my brother.
The best booksellers are like trustworthy pushers: Whatever they're dealing, you take it.
It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.
Life is full of bullshit; reject or deal with it, but move on.
I will come back to India - so deal with it.
I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.
I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze.
Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.
feeling means your dealing means your healing
As a competitor, you have to learn pretty quickly how to deal with pressure.
I'm a workaholic, and a lot of girls don't know how to deal with a workaholic.
You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.
If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids.
Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.
What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.