"Being precedes Truth, and â€¦ Truth precedes the Good."

-- Josef Pieper

“If you bring your sexual impulses to your creative work... you'll be working from deep in the genetic code, down where life wants to make new life and feel good in the process.”
“I just have never seen anyone build anything significant in any field without having a deep and detailed sense of what they are building on.”
“What you consent to can only be discovered by an uncritical observation of your reactions to life. Your reactions reveal where you live psychologically; and where you live psychologically, determines how you live here in the outer visible world.”
“There'll never be a 'Rocky IV.' You gotta call a halt.”
“If the selection process is right and its members GOOD, then there could be no reason why the collection of the teammates be not BETTER and bright who would work in the BEST interest of the organization, either individually or jointly, to bring sustainability in achieving newer growth height.”
“I never thought of doing anything but comics, except maybe being a pilot.”

Source : "The Trouble With Drawing Dick Cheney". Interview with Julia Turner, www.slate.com. September 10, 2006.
“I will go forward... I will smile at the rage of the tempest, and ride fearlessly and triumphantly across the boisterous ocean of circumstance... And the 'testimony of Jesus' will light up a lamp that will guide my vision through the portals of immortality, and communicate to my understanding the glories of the Celestial kingdom.”
“I wanted to take a damaged individual in a damaged society with damaged relationships between nations and take a look at how this individual survives amongst them, and that for me as a writer is the connection that you needed to get inside the skin of the main character and wonder how he's going to cope with all this.”

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