I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?
All of the monsters in my head were created by people who thought they could make me a porcelain doll marionette of their own design.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
There's that old theory that humankind and this planet were seen as the centre of the universe. That was thrown away - how could we be so presumptuous? Well, I subscribe to that.
I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.
I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.
Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.
People could see by your actions on the park that you cared about it. If we got beat, I'd fling the Sunday papers in the bin and wouldn't read them.
If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.
If people ask me, 'What do you think could improve in Toronto dining,' I'd say there's nothing to improve on.
That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.
For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing.
My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff.
My parents worked their tails off, but we weren't the poorest people in town. Some people I went to school with, you could tell they were dirt poor.
If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.
We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals.
If I was 30th in points and not making races and not being competitive in races, I could understand them saying I'm over-the-hill or I'm ready to quit or whatever.
When I was a junior, boys were allowed to come visit me at the house. We could sit on the porch until about 8 o'clock at night; that's when it started getting dark. That was it.
I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.
