"Out of the water, I am nothing."

-- Duke Kahanamoku

“I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There were two reasons. I had almost no time to do my own writing, but didn't want to stop. And it was a reaction to Proust's very long sentences.”
“Patriotism: The first resort of a scoundrel.”
“Cool is spent. Cool is empty. Cool is ex post facto. When advertisers and pundits hoard a word, you know it's time to retire from it. To move on. I want to suggest, therefore, that we begin to avoid cool now. Cool is a trick to get you to buy garments made by sweatshop laborers in Third World countries. Cool is the Triumph of the Will. Cool enables you to step over bodies. Cool enables you to look the other way. Cool makes you functional, eager for routine distraction, passive, doped, stupid.”
“I believe that anything in this world is fair game for a creative exercise.”
“The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.”
“As an actor, you're always playing different people, so you yourself are always kind of going through an identity crisis.”
“Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.”
“If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.”

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