Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.
I don’t expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
Every time I went out, someone had to look at me or talk to me, and I just got sick of it. Now I have a very anonymous life, which I really love, and then I come to New York, and people bug out of me.
I started racing myself and once you get bitten by that bug you really are hooked.
Success is virulent. Once you get the bug then it's in you.
I didn't really listen to rock 'n' roll until I moved to LA. We would ditch school, go get high, put on Zeppelin IV and just bug out.
Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield.
My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also.
Anyone can squash a bug but all professors of this world couldn't build one.
We're going to get that little bug before that little bug gets my poll ratings down any further.
I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.
When I'm in New York, I bike everywhere. I have a couple of bikes stored over at Ed Norton's. It's the only way to go. But in Hawaii, I drive. I have a little Volkswagen Bug, from the 'Drive it? Hug it?' phase. I run it on biodiesel.
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard. . . 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty.
I was always scared in the amateurs, but the minute I got in the ring it was like another person took over. I become more vicious. In there I love to hurt people. Outside I can't hurt a bug.
I got the acting bug back because I felt like all of a sudden maybe after all these years, maybe I might have something to offer again. I walked away from it after 'Signs' because I just felt I was a bit stale and it wasn't ringing my bells, so I focused on directing, writing and producing.
Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.
The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler
