The idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and c...ould move higher and higher and even--ultimately, God willing, one day--that you might be able to join that special few at the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to men's eyes, the very Brotherhood of the Right Stuff itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting with President Bill Clinton was going to be a disaster. Now for t...he first time, I can tell you that you're a disaster.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand... on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason I do not spend my days in despair and my nights in hopeless weeping simply is that I am in love with my own ruin. I the...refore deserve no sympathy, and probably shan't get it: my own profound self-compassion is enough. I am so abominably self-conscious that no smallest detail in this tragedy eludes me. Day after day I sit in the theatre of my own life and watch the drama of my own history proceeding to its close. Pray God the curtain falls at the right moment lest the play drag on into some long and tedious anticlimax.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a human being, goddamn it, my life has value.' So I want ...you to get up now, I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'd like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over.... May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth's the right place for love: I don't know where it's likely to go better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a cannibalism that's loose in our society in which public figures such as the Clintons could try to come into this town a...nd do something good for this country and then they get hammered away even though they're trying to do the right thing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No sacrifice was too great to get the film right, to get it accurate, true, and perfect. We weren't important in our minds; only t...he picture was.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be c...onsidered a good guy. Americans are almost as fearful of being thought eccentric as the English of not seeming like the genuine article. I once knew an Englishman who refused to go out on Easter Monday for fear of being detected in London when all the right people would be elsewhere; but when he went forth on less dangerous occasions, his get-ups were such as no American would wear to a dogfight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »