"I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me."

-- Dick Cavett

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“In Angels in America, I got to fulfill a lifelong dream. I was in the air eight nights a week for two years, and I just loved it.”
“it was first love. There's no love like that. I don't wish it on a soul. I don't hate anyone enough.”
“Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences, never understanding the connection between outer and inner phenomena or interdependent phenomena, looking for explanations only from objects through nihilist habit instead of from the subjective experience of their own minds.”
“There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up." But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.”

Source : "So Now We've Got". talkingpointsmemo.com. March 26, 2007.
“If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.”

Source : Anwar Sadat (1978). “In Search of Identity: An Autobiography”, New York : Harper & Row
“I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but trip over history at every turn. It's a city of enormous contradictions. Within a few yards of Lenin's Tomb is some of the most expensive shopping in the world.”
“It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.”

Source : Interview with Carol Fitzgerald, Joe Hartlaub and Wiley Saichek, www.bookreporter.com. November 21, 2003.
“A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?”

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