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"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave."

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

"When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool."
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"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."

"When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed."

"The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool."

"I was always a show-off - as a kid I was never afraid to make a fool of myself, and I guess that's still true."
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"Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes."

"HBO is really famous for hiring good people and staying out of their way until they ask for help, or need it. And that reputation is earned."

"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."

"I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?"

"A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing."

"When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again."
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