"Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind. I think a lot of writers must negotiate this, and if they don't admit it, they're not being honest."

-- Michael Cunningham

#Hero Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Virginia Quotes

“A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority.”
“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.”
“Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food”

Source : "Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis" by Albert A. Bartlett in "American Journal of Physics", Volume 46, No. 9 (pp. 876-888), September 1978.
“A man who has nothing can whistle in a robber's face.”
“Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.”
“I think it's hard, the fact that there's a certain age that we can't have kids anymore.”
“I always overpay or overtip when I'm upset.”
“I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.”

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