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“Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.”
Source : Elias Canetti (1982). “Auto Da Fé”, New York : Continuum
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“The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.”
Source : Kevin O'Leary (2011). “Cold Hard Truth: On Business, Money & Life”, p.12, Doubleday Canada
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“But, indeed, we prefer books to pounds; and we love manuscripts better than florins; and we prefer small pamphlets to war horses.”
Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 461, Curiosities of Literature, Pamphlets, 1922.
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“Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse horrors in our past. The writer's role is to be a truth sayer. I sincerely believe that each society, each country lives by a particular fantasy vision, a fantasy vision of itself. The truth of how they live is hardly ever faced.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.”
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“As I crawled out of the abyss of combat and over the rail of the Sea Runner, I realized that compassion for the sufferings of others is a burden to those who have it. As Wilfred Owen's poem "Insensibility" puts it so well, those who feel most of others suffer most in war.”
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“The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.”
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“If you're a first-responder in Missouri as part of a fire department, you're three times more likely to respond to a drug overdose than you are a fire. So it's a problem. I don't know exactly what the right number is, but certainly I think members of the Senate and House are rightly concerned about it.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
