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One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.
In TV, in general, the more you try and please everybody, the less people you please.
I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.
A journey may be long or short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself.
I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.
All along the backwater, Through the rushes tall, Ducks are a-dabbling, Up tails all!
For years, the feminists thought of me as an army sergeant. I was too macho for them.
I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
I am against censorship. I don't think there is anything more stupid than censorship.
Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
Sometimes you are lucky enough to get offered things and there is no rhyme or reason.
We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.
We need to ensure that children are not forced to waste their time on barren rubbish.
I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.
I'm always going to do whatever I think is funniest. If something's dark, I'll do it.
You see what power is holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them.
His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.
Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
Isaac Asimov is, in reality, based on something I had invented a few years previously.
Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.
I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.
What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?
When I'm writing, I'm never trying to teach anything - maybe I'm trying to illuminate.
The river , corrected the Rat, It's my world...What it hasn't got is not worth having.
We are all like one-winged angels. It is only when we help each other that we can fly.
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness.
In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.
Accepted that we all are human resources, but we are humans first and resources later.
I have now become so infatuated with television. I think television has become elegant.
Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with
We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.
I didn't happen to be one of those gay kids who knew definitively by the time I was 13.
to achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.
Some characters become your friends for life. That's how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.
I am such a rewriter; I have so many notebooks filled with drafts you wouldn't believe.
The writer interweaves a story with his own doubts, questions, and values. That is art.
The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them indistinguishable from rudeness.
You can't ask someone to act middle-aged. Someone has to bring their own fatigue to it.
What really keeps me going is the constant belief that it could all disappear tomorrow.
You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.
The point is just to create a discipline for making sure that you're creating material.