You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.
Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young
A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.
Selfless giving is a guaranteed way to increase feelings of love.
One way or the other, if you want to find reasons why you shouldn’t keep on, you’ll find ‘em. The obstacles are all there; there are a million of ‘em.
There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.
I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way, you either let it slide or you cook with it.
I was becoming the cold, emotionally crippled monster I always wanted to be, and I wasn’t so sure I liked it. But it was too late. The metamorphosis was already well under way.
I'm very uncomfortable about the way I look but confident as a man.
I went to Europe and, as I've been told, ate my way out of a career.
If you say you're worthy, you are. If you say you're not worthy, you're not. Either way you will live into your story.
Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.
People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of suffocating way.
I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked.
I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?
I am increasingly convinced that the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics beyond religion altogether.
You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!
Any girl who has flown at all grows used to the prejudice of most men pilots who will trot out any number of reasons why women can't possibly be good pilots. . . . The only way to show the disbelievers, the snickering hangar pilots, is to show them.
Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.
Perhaps the choice is a negative one, in that I was trying to avoid everything that touched on well-known issues - or any issues at all, whether painterly, social or aesthetic. I tried to find nothing too explicit, hence all the banal subjects; and then, again, I tried to avoid letting the banal turn into my issue and my trademark. So it's all evasive action, in a way.
