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I still use a typewriter from time to time, but because I can't type as well as I used to, I really don't use one very much. ”
Time itself comes in drops. ”
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. ”
When I was a kid, they made us write these essays about what Heaven would be like. I went to this Christian school in Texas, and the thing that I wrote was no bees. No bees. No mud. No infirmities. ”
I would not have done much differently, but I would have loved to have done everything better. The truth is, I think I was just getting warmed up when the era ended. ”
We live in an age that is driven by information. Technological breakthroughs... are changing the face of war and how we prepare for war. ”
Let's be clear about one thing: a film about Katharine Hepburn is an excellent idea. She was one of the most fascinating, complex stars ever to grace a motion picture screen, and she deserves a full-scale, big-screen biographical treatment. ”
If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business. ”
In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever. ”
I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself. ”