Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
Most of my story ideas come from my childhood. Sometimes they hatch from stories my parents told me, sometimes they come from experiences in my own life, and sometimes they are inspired by mere moments.
The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.
You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
I know that a lot of my life is spent thinking about crisps and eating crisps and hating myself for eating crisps. It's just not worth it. Or it wouldn't be if crisps weren't so delicious.
It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life.
When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.
Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.
The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.
Honestly, it's important to not take this whole process of life on this planet too seriously. And you need games to remind you that every aspect of your experience on this planet is a game. And you have to be a good sport. You have to strategize, and you have to have fun.
I like showing moms what it's really like having a baby, and how it's not Hollywood life.
It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.
