It's a cliche, but true, that writing is intensely solitary and at times really lonely. I sit in one room and talk to squirrels and blue jays all day.
Listen and look long at beauty that compels you, spontaneously engage what naturally calls to you…this is how we recover our true personal values.
True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and they infiltrate and alter consciousness in ways that writers used to aspire to.
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are doing... what they all went through. It's not just a song, see?
Often, we will stay in a miserable status quo until the misery finally exceeds the resistance to change. True wisdom is seeing the future: what will happen if change does not happen?
True Freedom can only exist when one recognizes that their strings have been pulled - and they take action to stand in the light of Truth and own themselves.
Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.
It's not true that we lose our creative genius when we grow older, but we grow older because we forget to use our creative genius.
I am not pretty, I am not ugly, I am not true, I am not false, I am just me, a reality, a conception not a misinterpretation.
Our thoughts and perceptions are our god. Our true inner awareness is the purest temple, where I worship every day for the divine.
When my father was a young actor, it is absolutely true that the vast majority were fairly middle class. Then all of a sudden, people like Albert Finney burst through and turned all that on its head.
The West begins where the average annual rainfall drops below twenty inches. Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.
Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.
If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does.
I think commercials get a bad rap, that there's no creativity to them, but I haven't found that to be entirely true. The process of auditioning for them can be tedious, but actually doing them can be really fun.
True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well, of course.' Where there's no rational alternative.
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
An awful lot of people come to college with this strange idea that there's no longer segregation in America's schools, that our schools are basically equal; neither of these things is true.
True wealth, success, and happiness can only be achieved by balancing our business life with the duty we have to our self and to our family.
No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.
