Endings are really hard to do, and it's hard to do an ending where it's sort of collaborative with thousands and thousands of people, and to satisfy all those people is impossible.
Anytime we're interacting with someone, we're judging them, we're sharing expectations, we think they didn't live up to those expectations.
There are, basically, three kinds of people: the unsuccessful, the temporarily successful, and those who become and remain successful. The difference is character.
I've hurt people unnecessarily when it was about my own insecurities. But you have to make those mistakes to become a better person.
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
I feel small when I stand beside the ocean, next to all those fat people in bathing suits.
Those generic avatar images for uploading a personal photo are really convenient for me, because my face looks exactly like that.
Those who are ignorant of science fiction movie tropes are condemned to play imperial stormtroopers.
No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
Those who know me know I won't hesitate to turn around and point someone out.
I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which to employ them.
I was a weedy kid, not like one of those working-class men who can accommodate not being academically clever by physical strength and prowess.
The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.
I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.
When they are preparing for war, those who rule by force speak most copiously about peace until they have completed the mobilization process.
Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
I always played the ugly sister instead of Cinderella or the Wicked Witch. But those are the parts I love, and actually, to be a character actress, you have more longevity, hopefully.
