Sometimes you got to hurt something to help something. Sometimes you have to plow under one thing in order for something else to grow.
Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
I have no more to say except this: We must live with our own conscience.
Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.
I want you to show them the difference between what they think you are and what you can be.
I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
Everything’s been said, but it needs saying again.
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
And that’s all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we – each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.
We all have much more in common than we have difference. I would say that about people all over the world. They don’t know how much in common that they have.