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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

When you talk about entitlement programs, it's not just about - it's not about cutting those programs. It is about saving those programs. Those programs are on a path of fiscal unsustainability.

Fidelity - a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making "Star Trek." But most of the time, I don't think about it.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.

Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.