Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
Date of birth: 1915-05-27
Quotes number: 11
Nationality: American
Profession: Novelist
I'm cleaning toilets for $30 a day, because I needed that $30, and people are pointing at me, saying, Look at the big movie star. Look where he is now. I just said, I'm where God put me.
The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.
I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.
The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.
Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.
I like reality. It tastes like bread.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.