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“I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.”
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“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
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“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
Source : Martin Heidegger (1999). “Contributions to Philosophy: From Enowning”, p.307, Indiana University Press
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“Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“To try to be brave is to be brave.”
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“The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.”
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“I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.”
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“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.”
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“Today, salute, mile, serve, deep. And I am never doing that again.-Kavi”
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“I can never consent to being dictated to.”
Source : Said during a Cabinet meeting, 1841.
