I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.
We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that "9/11"? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.
Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
The work of a psychotherapist involves being empathic and insightful with one's patients without getting too lost in their painful stories to be helpful.
If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.
While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Child actors come off as work being their life and doing it 24/7, but I still have those days where it's totally, like, whatever: shopping, movies, adventures.
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
Work is valued by the social value of the worker.
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.