I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met. . . He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.
Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.
He thinks it's his day, and when you think it's your day, it usually is.
I think "waste of your brain" is something that my mother would say to me occasionally - I think it's usually when I'm telling her something like that I can remember every outfit I've ever worn.
You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.
Lothaire:Hate scars. I'm physically flawless--why can't everyone be? Everywhere Lothaire went, people stopped and stared. Of course, then they usually ran.
He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.
Usually in films, when Muslims pray, it's either before or after they've blown something up.
The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past.
Your day usually follows the direction of the corners of your mouth. So SMILE.
A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
Whiners usually play alone.
I usually like whatever I've recently finished best.
When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is.
The painting is usually finished before you are.
I can write two scripts concurrently, but I usually prefer to do one at a time. However, I also usually have 5 or 6 story ideas that are percolating in my head at any one time, so it can get a little crowded in there.
The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them.
Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation.