Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.
The guy who kills 38 people is not the guy you'd want to have over at Thanksgiving.
The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
I don't take a scene or word for granted.
When you get the call from Quentin Tarantino, it's the call of a lifetime. You don't allow yourself to be vulnerable enough or to be fool enough to expect that phone call to happen, in reality.
I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.
I quite like antiques. I like things that are old and the history they bring with them. I would rather fly to Morocco on an $800 ticket and buy a chair for $300 than spend $1,100 on one at Pottery Barn.
For many years, questions about the meaning of life were dismissed as senseless. We were told that life, not being a word or sentence or anything language-like, can't intelligibly be said to have meaning. An encouraging development in the last couple of decades is a return by philosophers to addressing - as nearly all people do at some time or another - the question of life's meaning.
I want a guy who takes charge, but lets me have my say once in a while. A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.
The success of Yoga must not be measured by how flexible your body becomes, but rather by how much it opens your heart.
The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case of each of these exotic terrains, plenty of people were on the site before the discoverers ever arrived.