Tests were always easy for me. I saw them as games, saw myself as being in a contest against a mythical adversary, and welcomed the challenge.
Books have always been among my most trusted of friends, Mr. Linden replied. The best of them allow the mind to wander wherever the author’s musings lead.
Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard.
That’s what’s wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don’t even tell you how they feel.
All of fiction is truthful. What you create is your own truth and no one can take that away or change it.
Fools commit suicide and think they’re doing themselves a favor.
Go. Think. Turn black into white.Night into day. I am tired of thinking.I know where it will lead me and I don’tWant to be there.Go love. Do your thinking.
Let me thinkThinking is all I haveIf wisdom is a pretenseThen let me pretend to be wise
I mean, if you think about doing things to people like that, if you think about it too much, it gets all up in you and you can’t control it after a while. Then they really got you.
When you see a filmmaker getting too fancy… you can bet he’s worried either about his story or his ability to tell it.
…when we feel powerless, we stop trying to find a better way.
Nothing sounds better than being away from this mess. Nothing sounds better right now than getting higher than the hole I’m in.
Children have adopted a consumerist attitude – I dare you to entertain me.
I think it’s difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They’re embarrassed to have people see them doing it.
My younger brother’s death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In ‘Fallen Angels’ I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.