I don't much enjoy travelling, but I have always longed to take a slow train to Russia. I'd like to go alone - like writers do - with only a pencil and piece of paper as company. I'd take my sketchbook and note down all the wonderful details of other travellers.
I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.
Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.
While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key.
How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.
The tree of life was always there. Evolution just fills in the gaps.
I have always had tremendous respect for my sister as an artist, as a woman, and now as a mother.
L.A. style is more laid back than London, mainly because it's always sunny. In London, the cold means you get to rock layers. And you can't go wrong with a trench coat!
I always say that characters must drive plots, never the reverse. Writing about large-scale events creates the risk that the scope of the events themselves can overwhelm the characters. I emphatically do not want that. That was the only trepidation I felt when I started 'The Twilight War.'
As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.
Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
I took the role of Rochelle in 'Everybody Hates Chris,' and that was it. I was going to play mother roles all the time. Once you do one mother role, it's always a trickle down effect.
I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.
There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.
I'm still very professional about my fitness. I stay in trim as I always did.
I always overwrite - really awful, long bits of script - and then I trim it down to the bare bones and then add a little bit to colour it in. At the end of all of my stories, I test for wordless comprehension. So I remove the text and see if it works by itself. And if it does, I feel that that's a successful story.
I believe and have always believed in the Holy Trinity.
For Alkaline Trio, Chicago is our hometown. The band started there. Even though we all live in different cities now, we still call Chicago home, and it's always really exciting to come back and play for our best crowd.
An average show is two hours. And that's usually right up to the curfew or the union triple time. I always feel like I could have played a little longer or something, but it's hard for me to pay attention to anything for longer than that.
