I've had the luxury of playing golf around the world, and I've spent a lot of time evaluating how to play all kinds of courses.
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.
Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.
I've met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
My disposition as a human being is kind of a go-along-to-get-along person. I tend to trust authority.
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'
Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
Barry Guiler: You can come and play now.
Toby Neary: Dad, after this can we throw dirt in MY window?
Teasle: Goddammit, what the hell do you think this is? Some kind of a circus?
Tyler Durden: You have a kind of sick desperation in your laugh.
Kanji: I can't afford to hate people. I don't have that kind of time.
I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my voice, so it's kind of nice that now I'm making a lot of money with it.
There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.
The risks are far greater to your child of not getting immunized than any kind of speculative potential relationship between the vaccine and the development of autism.
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
