I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.
I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.
I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
We don't invent our natures. They're issued to us along with our lungs, our pancreas and everything else.
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.
I wish we could launch a ground-breaking competition that motivates kids to invent new ideas in sustainable living.
I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.
Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site.
If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.
I always joke and say I want to invent a comfortable stiletto and then retire.
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
I'm on a crusade to get movie directors to get their science right because, more often than they believe, the science is more extraordinary than anything they can invent.
I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.
To invent an airplane is nothing. To build one is something. But to fly is everything.
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
In order to rally people, governments need enemies... if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.
I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches.
To invent a war means that you've become a wartime president, and you can suspend much if not all of the Bill of Rights.
I'm constantly trying to invent different ways to do things. If you're going to be a television executive, you have to change with the times.
It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube?
All I'm saying is that Louis Vuitton and L'Oreal didn't invent branding at some point in the mid-Eighties. Big, reassuring names have been around a long time.
Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.
I think we can be the very best place to start a business, to grow a business, to invent a new technology, to change the world, to change the country. But we've got a lot of work to deliver a new California to the people of California.
I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions.
