It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Christian Slater

Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.

Len Wein

If you're lucky as you get older, you respect the craft and it becomes a skill.

Frank Langella

Make it work. Make it right. Make it fast.

Anonymous

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

James Earl Jones

I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.It never is, sir.Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.

Oscar Wilde

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

William Shakespeare

I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.

Albert Camus

But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Umberto Eco

I think that economic patriotism is the very foundation of a European vision.

Dominique de Villepin