'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
I cried every day of first grade. In class. Which meant I ended up getting comfortable emoting in a place where it wasn't the norm.
The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed the wrong horse.
I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.
With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.
Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.
I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.
It's that one thing that you're passionate about, that you end up developing tunnel vision for and everything else tends to fall by the wayside. Passion is appealing and universal.
I don't know what to do with myself between films. I end up doing unhealthy things like shopping or drinking. I'm pretty schizophrenic about it.
We think of infinity as a really big number, but it’s not. It’s endlessness. Endlessness is a really strange idea in a universe that is defined by its endings.
True love will triumph in the end—which may or may not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
A lot of relationships have ended for me in my 20s, because I knew that eventually those people would wanna settle down and have kids.
I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.
John Adams warned of the division of America into two great political parties. Luckily, the parties we ended up with are mediocre at best.
I never read the whole Zen koan – I just skip to the end to find out if the monk attained enlightenment.
Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.
Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.
It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it.
When you grew up like me and my four brothers, you end up feeling somewhat inadequate, like somehow you don't count.
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
