I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.
I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have a conversation and come back and everything's burnt.
Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back to fiction.
I love to look at The Graduate, or Lawrence of Arabia, or things I had nothing to do with. But you could not get me to go back and watch movies that it was a privilege just to be around them when they were being made.
I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.
I would love to see Flip get back into the league. I think he can definitely still coach in this league. I think he will be in this league quicker than sooner.
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
If they laugh at you for being true to yourself, laugh back at them for not knowing how great it feels to be in love with one's positive self.
The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'
I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.
What I know from my friends who are cops is they keep their houses very clean, because they say you never know if you're coming back or not.
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
I grew up as a part of the team that helped to field M-1s and M-60-A3s to the army back in 1980s.
If nobody can sell mortgage-backed securities based on trillions of dollars of unpayable instruments, there's a lot less risk in the overall system.
A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.
In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.
Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.