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I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back heavy metal to a program on MTV, then they are really going to have to get in touch with what real heavy metal is.

People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.

What I like least is dealing with publishers who simply don't want collaborations regardless of their merit.

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

We fear the thing we want the most.

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

I just want to get on the court.

When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

No, the czar did not want us in the schools.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.

I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space.

I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.

I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.

The Masters is a very important tournament. You don't want to jeopardize your chances. The sponsors understand that.