Not to find pleasure in serious reading gives a pastel coloring to the mind.
I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.
I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.
We're naturally afraid of a spider - these are memories that are being chemically passed down through your DNA.
I tend to be a very logical, practical person.
Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.
I think [it's necessary to accept] things that are just true about yourself: These are my faults, these are the things I'm good at, this is where I came from, this is where I didn't come from. I think happy people are the ones who have made peace with those truths and acknowledged them, and learned to use them and live with them.
There are no small churches, just small people.
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.
Malcolm Turnbull got a majority in the parliament that he is trying to ignore and lock his own members of parliament into positions that they don't hold, and sometimes into positions that we know he doesn't hold. It's no wonder the public's started turning on him.