quotes about Publishers

“It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.”

“I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.”

“Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense.”

“Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling, the honesty of your vision, the unsentimental acknowledgment of the endless interest of the life around and within you. Virtually nobody can help you deliberately - many people will help you unintentionally.”

“I think we should be worried about the fact that we have become, as a society, very focused on the way people look, the way they dress. I do think we should worry about that because we should be worried about content. We should be worried about ideas. We should not be putting form over function.”

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“I think it has a terrible impact when you don't see yourself reflected in the society because then you get the feeling you don't belong.”

“You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere.”

“Criminals are opportunists. If you've got a booming market, they're going to get away with more fraud.”

“Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.”

“If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?”