I think you can tell when you meet someone whether they read novels. There's some hollowness if they don't.
The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
I like to have fun with them. I like to toy with them a little bit. we're making television, after all. Right?
Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.
And that was my homecoming. It was fine, I guess. Getting back feels like your first breath after nearly drowning. Even if it hurts, it's good.
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.
There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.
Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try. ---in Good Housekeeping
But one immediate thing can be done right now, and that is: lower the temperature. Any way you can, and everybody. Just lower it.
Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature.
Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.
I probably should be a little more cautious with how I speak, and I think my delivery needs to be a little softer.
Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.
The only way you'll have a pen of potential Romeos from your past to choose from is to actually have a past.
It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.
I have come to believe that the best kind of walk, or journey, is the one in which you have no particular destination when you set out.
I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.
Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
Angels, demons, spirits, wizards, gods and witches have peppered folk religions since mankind first started telling stories.
Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.
