He (Mickey Mantle) has it in his body to be great.
I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
I'm not a big fan of religion for that reason. But I am a true believer in God, and I have great faith, and I think that a spiritual connection with something is a really important part of our experience. That doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the church.
I'm not cynical about marriage or romance. I enjoyed being married. And although being single was fun for a while, there was always the risk of dating someone who'd owned a lunch box with my picture on it.
The propensity to do good things is a choice.
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.
You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.
I am really chained to my computer these days so I work in my bedroom, which is a room I have worked in for years and years. It is just as much an office as a bedroom, and during the day, my bed is rather like an extension of my desk.
It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.
The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more — if more should be required — the future of human civilization is at stake.
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.