I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
My proudest thing in my career is that I was able to change it three times. And I'm happy about that. I couldn't have done the same thing my whole life; I would've gone nuts. I couldn't do it, because I do things based on impulsive excitement, and I'm just not that guy that can do something for 50 years and be excited about the same thing.
As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
There's some sort of unspoken license... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
I've done a lot of different things in my life. I've parachuted, done some deep-sea diving. Inasmuch as it's safe to do, I can do it.
I'm not incapable of going through things.
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.
Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
We have to think outside the box, inside the Constitution, find ways to do things that will elevate our security, reduce the risk of the incidence of terrorist attack.
I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It's only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they're just economic figures.
I miss a lot of things; that's the price one pays for stardom. I miss standing in queues, buying tickets, and watching films first day first show. It isn't the same going to preview theatres or multiplexes and trying to stay incognito.
Income inequality is troubling because, among other things, it means that many people in our society don't have the opportunities to advance themselves.
I do get pleasure from very inconsequential things, like shopping for clothes.
It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.
It's nice to have the power of Twitter to correct things that were incorrect.
Unfortunately, things are different in climate science because the arguments have become heavily politicised. To say that the dogmas are wrong has become politically incorrect.
