Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.