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Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.
I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.
I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.
We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.
All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.
The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Outside of taking care of a man’s needs, women don’t get much pleasure out of life, anyways.
Relationships, the ones that last anyway, are really an extended game of Let's Make A Deal .
Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.
Only when we try to understand one another's suffering can we begin to bring each other joy.
Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.
I'm lucky that so many children visit my website. At least I get to talk with them that way.
I do believe that people who write for children are deeply connected to their own childhood.
The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.
When you can use dirty words in every situation with everyone, that's a real big liberation.
You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.
Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
Pain does not create a long-lasting memory, but the memory of luxury exerts itself for ever.
And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra.
My mother was so stylish, but she never pushed that on me. She always thought I looked cool.
We over estimate technology in the short term and under estimate technology in the long term.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Things change…things happen…things you can’t even imagine when you’re young and full of hope.
Monkeys who very sensibly refrain from speech, lest they should be set to earn their livings.
There has to be a measure of difficulty or problem-solving in travel for it to be worthwhile.
Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.
Cindy Sheehan is one tough mother. And nothing you say or anyone else is gonna slow her down.
I was talking and playing pranks and skipping school, failing pretty much every class I took.
You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.
I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman.
It was their mothers, long ago. Tibby noted with joy that all four of them were wearing jeans.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
Getting information from the internet is like getting a glass of water from the Niagara Falls.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
The one fact about the future of which we can be certain is that it will be utterly fantastic.
But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.
The time was fast approaching when Earth, like all mothers, must say farewell to her children.
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
What you fail to understand is the power of hate. It can fill the heart as surely as love can.
Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.
When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.
In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.