Everything is nothing by itself.
Centuries ago, sailors on long voyages used to leave a pair of pigs on every deserted island. Or they'd leave a pair of goats. Either way, on any future visit, the island would be a source of meat. Th...
Bu ömür boyu sahip olduğum altı yüz kırk birinci balık. Tanrı'nın yarattığı başka bir canlıya bakmayı ve sevmeyi öğrenmem için ailem yıllar önce ilk balığımı almıştı. Sahip olduğum altı yüz kırk balık...
Brandy says, Don't you see? Because we're so trained to do life the right way. To not make mistakes. Brandy says, I figure, the bigger the mistake looks, the better chance I'll have to break out and l...
You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.
Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.
Every time I write something, I think, this is the most offensive thing I will ever write. But no. I always surprise myself.
Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.
I believe in something. But I don't believe that anything can hold a grudge for long enough to condemn its creation to eternal punishment. Nobody can hold a grudge that long, even God.
You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
Ჯორჯ ორუელი ცდებოდა.დიდი ძმა თვალყურს კი არ გადევნებს, ის ცეკვავს და მღერის, მას ბოცვრები ამოჰყავს ჯადოსნური ქუდიდან. ყოველთვის, როცა არ გძინავს, დიდი ძმა გართობს, ყურადღებას გიფანტავს, ყველაფერს აკეთ...
Nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
You just don’t know what I’ve been through this past year.
Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
When you're dead probably not even homeless people and retarded people will want to trade you places.
What you don't understand you can make mean anything.
We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.
We were kept busy learning. We had a million facts to remember.
We have pain and hate and love and joy and war in the world because we want them.