"Truth - there's no such thing."

-- Tankred Dorst

“â€¦for a true Christian, all strangers are Jesus.”
“Fashions come and go; bad taste is timeless.”
“Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and my best wishes for the Papacy which you begin today. [to Pope Benedict XVI]”
“One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.”
“She's no longer afraid to die. What she's afraid of is living, accepting the status quo.”
“I always tell reporter that you always have to be working. If you are at a party you can have a good time but if you hear something talking about something new or different that's going on you have to be working. In this business to be at the top of your game you really can't unplug.”
“I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.”
“As he thought of it, though, he could not imagine what â€œjust livingâ€ might actually be. He had never done it in his life. But he wanted to do it anyway.”

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