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You don't believe in organized religion, yet a major theme in so many of your works seems to be a quest for God.
The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
KITSIS: What you see at the beginning and think you know is absolutely not what you're going to know at the end.
[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.
I'm not sure that, for a lot of people, the real world is an easy place to live in. And yet we still soldier on.
There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out
Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.
Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
I just absolutely adore Denver and the Boulder area. Having lived there several times, it feels like home to me.
My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.
The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
It didnt take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.
At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.
Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.
Don't, for goodness' sake, keep on saying 'Don't'; I hear so much of it, and it's monotonous, and makes me tired.
And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?
I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.
When I couldn't get ahold of cigarettes, I'd roll coffee grounds into typing paper and smoke that and then vomit.
I think my brain just has a natural way of going to what would be the most insane thing, the least likely option.
She was supposed to be putting her life together right now, and all she could seem to do was throw grenades at it.
He just wanted to look at her and know her life was marching along under the same arch of time and space as he is.
The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.
I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.
I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.
It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
But if you aren't any religion, how are you going to know if you should join the Y or the Jewish Community Center?
That's good when you don't know what you're doing. But you're doing it and it's spontaneous and you're not afraid.
When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it to an editor.
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.
You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
We are living in a world where everything is false. The society is like bright paint applied on top of rotten wood.
She had to have faith not just in trying but in failing. Was she strong enough to fail Was she strong enough not to
The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.
It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.
Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.
An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life.
The biggest threat to this country isn't the Russians. It's our own inability to make democracy or capitalism work.
In 1953 there were two ways for an Irish Catholic boy to impress his parents: become a priest or attend Notre Dame.
Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died.
The idea of starting with that Kanye [West] song is declarative. It says, "This is the kind of story we're telling."
I do believe that people go to the movies - for one reason or another - they go to the movies to have an experience.