“I love the early process of asking questions about a story and deciding which questions matter most.” MatterStoriesLiteratureProcessAskingAsking Questions Author:Diane Sawyer
“Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.” WorldWarFacesLiteratureTerrorismCodeNew World Author:Diane Sawyer
“The interesting thing is always to see if you can find a fact that will change your mind about something, to test and see if you can.” IfsMindFactsLiteratureInterestingTestsInteresting ThingsChanging Your Mind Author:Diane Sawyer
“American poetry is always about defining oneself individually,claiming one's right to be different and often to break taboos.” DifferentLiteratureBreakOneselfPoetry IsDefiningTabooAmerican Poetry Author:Diane Wakoski
“From reading a previous answer, you know that I consider all those aspects to be part of American cultural myth and thus they figure into good American poetry, whether the poet is aware of what he is doing or not.” KnowsReadingLiteratureAnswersFiguresPoetAspectMythAmerican Poetry Author:Diane Wakoski
“The novel is about five students of classics who are studying with a classics professor, and they take the ideas of the things that they're learning from him a bit too seriously, with terrible consequences.” IdeasLiteratureBitsNovelStudyFiveStudentsTerribleConsequenceProfessors Author:Donna Tartt
“It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.” IfsThinkingDoneJobsCan DoBuddhismComponentsBetter JobsMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think one can advance faster outside a monastery if you use the experiences of daily life to advance yourself.” IfsThinkingUseBuddhismFasterDaily LifeMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz
“The spirit of the West, of America, is different than the East. The cultural conditioning is very different. It seems to be harder for people to work in teams, more difficult for people here to live in harmony, in a monastery.” PeopleDifferentSeemsAmericaSpiritDifficultTeamBuddhismHarderHarmonyWestEastConditioningMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz
“The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.” KindPersonsJobsPoorHalfBuddhismYogaGardenVery GoodAssCleaningMeditatingMonasteries Author:Frederick Lenz