At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece.
I think that in the future, clocks won't say three o'clock anymore. They'll just get right to the point and rename three o'clock 'Pepsi.'
David Letterman used to say, 'I wasn't the class clown, but I wrote for him,' and that's exactly it. You want to be known to be funny without having it pointed out.
I was raised as a Christian but the transaction has to be made by yourself - you and God - at some point.
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
Everyone's going to die, and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.
At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.
You can go through life and actually speak your mind and do it in an articulate fashion and with a really intelligent point of view.
I think there's a point at which you know how you dress isn't going to affect how much you do in life.
I spent most of my life watching HBO series wishing that at some point in my career I might be able to work with them.
You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.
At times I ask myself if I shouldn't be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.
I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak.
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
You can't just sit around and make protest albums all your life; eventually it comes to the point where you have to do something.
Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.
