It is inconceivable that people are motivated solely or even mainly by external incentives.
I know how important voting and elections are. But everybody know that life is going to be life regardless of who is president.
I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, "This is how Wayne is. " I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically.
You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.
I'm an addict, I'm addicted to success. Thankfully, there's no rehab for success.
I stick to the script, I memorize the lines, cause life is movie that I've seen too many times.
I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.
I told [a big investor in The New Yorker] - I was complaining the way writers complain. I said`[Bill Shawn] pays very well, but a lot of my pieces don't get in,' and that was true of most of the writers there. But he pays you for them, that was very nice of him. This guy didn't think it was very nice. He figured, `Oh, my God, that's more of my investment gone,' and paying money to writers for not printing them. That became, apparently, one of his weapons against Shawn when he - in the corporate skirmishes that went on. It was a bad mistake on my part.
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.
So from an angry lawman's mouth, the Outlaw Motorcyclists were born.
All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.