"Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own."

-- Richard Francis Burton

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“The truth is . . . you think what people want you to think.”
“I know a lot of people have very strong and definite plans that they've worked out on all kinds of things, but we're subject to a tremendous number of outside influences and the vast majority of them cannot be predicted. So my idea is to stay flexible. My only plan is to keep coming to work every day. I like to steer the boat each day rather than plan ahead way into the future.”
“I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.”
“In the beginning was the word, but it wasn't a fixed number of bits.”
“If I made a musical in the beginning of my career, it would have been crane shots and tracking shots and people coming out of cakes and whatever, but these techniques are something that I've left behind me.”
“Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.”
“The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.”
“Stupidity is a personal achievement which transcends national boundaries.”

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