I've learned, I think, to be able to distinguish between the necessary and the unnecessary as far as my limited outside time is concerned. Saying 'no' politely is a necessity if one wants to lead any kind of stable life.
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.
The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.
What I say on a record and what I say off a record is two different things. And that's always been the case. There's a difference between confidence on a record and arrogance.
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.
Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Obamacare is bureaucrats getting between you and your doctor, and that's what Americans most dislike about this legislation.
I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.
There is actually a physical connection between light and our health and wellbeing.
Google likely never cared if Google+ 'won' as a competitor to Facebook (though if it did, that would have been a nice bonus). All that mattered, in the end, was whether Plus became the connective tissue between all of Google's formerly scattered services. And in a few short years, it's fair to say it has.
Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
Communication needs to be between anybody at any time, which means it needs to happen out of the structure and out of order.
Democratic states must have access to content exchanged between terrorists on social media and instant messaging.
The distinction has blurred between young adult and adult books. Some of the teen books have become more sophisticated.
I've always waitressed between roles. When 'Black Mirror' was on, I was still flipping burgers. Customers would recognise me while asking for extra ketchup, which was pretty embarrassing.
I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.
The person is always happy who is in the presence of something they cannot know in full. A person as advanced far in the study of morals who has mastered the difference between pride and vanity.
Models used to describe and predict inflation commonly distinguish between changes in food and energy prices - which enter into total inflation - and movements in the prices of other goods and services - that is, core inflation.
All nonmimetic fiction is a balancing act between 'reality' and the obviously unreal, with no attempt by the author to make the latter seem like the former. Sometimes it's not an easy tightrope to walk. But when it succeeds, such fiction can brilliantly illuminate the human condition.
I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
I wanted to be a painter, somewhere between Abstract Expressionism and Pop.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.
There is a close analogy between organic chemistry in its relation to biochemistry and pure mathematics in its relation to physics.
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
Real luxury is a balance between quality and the affection you feel for an object that cannot be easily replicated.
Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually.
In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.
As much as I devoured comics, I read non-graphic books exponentially more, so I'm not sure I can credit or blame them. Comics, however, taught me a lot about what makes a story arc work and how to bring a story to its natural resting place between issues.
The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation.
What was so interesting about the glam era was that it was about bisexuality and breaking down the boundaries between gays and straights, breaking down the boundaries between masculinity and femininity with this androgyny thing.
It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
The art of reading between the lines is as old as manipulated information.
