I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Lord of the Rings is a good thing for us because it opened the door for the genre in general. Le Guin's stories are very different from Lord of the Rings.
The wonderful thing about God is he knows what we need to persuade us.
By God's help, and the intelligent use of their own strong right arms they could accomplish great things.
The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
It would be better for everyone if we deleted everything by default and saved the things that are important to us.
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
One of the things that takes a bit of getting used to on an American series is having a different director, and often writer, every week.
That's the thing about us lawyers - if at all possible, we will consume each other.
You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
Love changes things; hope allows us to endure until the change arrives.
The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
The magical, supernatural force that is with us every second is time. We can't even comprehend it. It's such an illusion, it's such a strange thing.
One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.
