I’ve always felt like the Beastie Boys were three Gilbert Gottfrieds screeching at me, and I prefer fingernails scratching on a chalkboard.
Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises.
I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.
We tried our best for the longest time to negotiate a peaceful resolution to the matter, and at each step, we were thwarted by those that said, No, we will not turn the boy over to his father.
We Americans love to cite the 'political spectrum' as the best way to classify ideologies. The metaphor is incorrect: it implies symmetry.
I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.
My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood.
I was surprise to see the world didn't stop just cause my boy did.
My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.
I'm not commercial, I'm not for Special K cereal and I'm not a Wheaties boy; I'm a little bit more avant-garde, a little bit more out there.
I came up the old-fashioned way - tea boy, cutter, focus-puller, cinematographer - but I wasn't myself old-fashioned.
There is a time in a boy’s life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues.
I had been warned about Jews by my gentile friends - they did terrible things with knives to boys.
I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.
I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.
I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.
The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
