Creativity Paris Review Quotes

#1. Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

Andrew Tobias

#2. My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#3. The novella will be called, I think, "The Messiah of Stockholm." It takes place in Stockholm. I'd better say no more, or the Muse will wipe it out.

Cynthia Ozick

#4. As America becomes an older nation, it is also, by some measures, becoming sicker.

Charles Duhigg

#5. Denial itself was institutionalized as a government function. Since 1923, the Turkish government has spent tens of millions of dollars in a concerted disinformation campaign to delude the world at large and, perhaps more important, its own people.

Eric Bogosian

#6. Outside the walls of the Circle, all was noise and struggle, failure and filth. But here, all had been perfected. The best people had made the best systems and the best systems had reaped funds, unlimited funds,

Dave Eggers

#7. I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.

Lizzie Andrew Borden

#8. At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say, 'Right on!

Madonna Ciccone

#9. Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Marion Barry