We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.
Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
In essence, we're imaging the same cell for anywhere from forty to a hundred thousand times to create one of the movies that we see.
I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it.
Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.
When I was young, I ran to see Astaire and Rogers, Huston, Lubitsch - they were formative for me. I also read 'Flash Gordon' when I was 6, but if I were still reading it when I was 16, I'd have been an imbecile.
When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it.
I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.
Disease is not the prerogative of man and the domestic animals, so it was quite natural to see if the lower animals, with very simple organizations, showed pathological phenomena, and if so, infection, cure and immunity could be observed among them.
We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly.
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
I'm impervious to charm. I can see through it.
'To Kill a Mockingbird' was so important because it was such adult film-making - to see something that dealt with such an important issue and had such an enlightened outlook on the world.
The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither.
I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.
'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.
It is possible to see the intermediate state between lives as being in a way more important than incarnate existence.
