We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teenagers are on Facebook, toddlers are on the DS, and so on.
Because Dad was famous, I was so used to being identified as 'John Huston's daughter' that I couldn't think of myself as anyone else.
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like Frank Zappa.
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.
My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
My dad was quite a forbidding figure. I realise now that that was mainly because he worked so hard. He wasn't unkind, but he was a presence.
My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.
My dad was a presence, of course, but he worked nights a lot, and I would only see him one day a week.
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
The Great War proved how confused the world is. Depression is proving it again.
Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.
What is a good enough principle for an American citizen ought to be good enough for the working man to follow.
People don't trust government, they don't trust Wall Street, they don't trust the church, they don't trust the media.
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
How many writers in history have ever been as famous as Stephen King? He casts an awfully long shadow.
I would fight God Almighty Himself if He didn't play square with me.
Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!
