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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things.

I've asked Jobs why he didn't get an operation then and he said, 'I didn't want my body to be opened... I didn't want to be violated in that way.'

Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

Y'see, when you start to lick a national problem you have to go after the fundamentables. You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin!

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

The life of the city never lets you go, nor do you ever want it to.

I consider the integrity of the material to be of greater value than any message I might want to get across.

You are already one with God; you want to become consciously aware of it.

In order to get what you want, you must act.

The last thing you want is an injured actor. That, or having to use a stuntman too much.

He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was absorbed in that madness which they called love; he had had enough of it; he did not want to be in love anymore if love was that.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

Stereotypes, I want to say, have to be thought of not just as these invidious, bad things that we could get rid of, but as images that we cannot get rid of, that we have to live with.

An author's characters do what he wants them to do.

"I want to be a lawn." Greta Garbo.

If you want to kill Christianity you must abolish Sunday.

We want full-scale normalisation of relations [with Japan].

Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].