"People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living."

-- Robert Downey, Jr.

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“It's boring to be 70, I don't want to be there, I'll be dead and gone, I don't have any aspirations to be 70...”
“I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.”
“What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing.”
“That goal surprised most people, least of all myself”
“Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.”
“We [with Frank Moore Cross] have the same fervor, the same passion when in front of us is a page, a unique page - every page is unique - of the Pentateuch.”

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“Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree.”
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

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