If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him.
You could have two completely different careers if you could stay healthy to 90. How fascinating that would be.
If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
If I could do anything, I'd be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots.
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
I've always said that if I could do anything in the world, I would be a professional golfer.
I could talk more directly in a nonfiction voice than I could in fiction.
If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.
Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.
If I could eat without gaining weight or getting unhealthy, I would eat all the time.
In high school, I could get beaten up all the time, or I could be something better. I became the court jester.
This could be done in part, because the equipment was very inexpensive. Not much money was involved in tooling so that basic changes of that type could be accomplished.
Auden said poetry makes nothing happen. But I wonder if the opposite could be true. It could make something happen.
If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
I'm obsessed with the moon and space travel, so if I could incorporate that, I'd love to go to space.
I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man.
I wish I could believe that one person could make a difference.
I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.
