Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.
The newness effect of a new thing wears off in nine months to a year, but financial security can last a lifetime.
Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.
It’s hard to be present when your attention is suffering information overload. Switch off and just sit still.
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.
Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the years it takes to get there.
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off.
I truly don't know why it was ended, though. It was suddenly decided that that would be it. They never said particularly why, because they were cut off in their prime.
When people talk of the economy being strong, they don't seem to feel that they, too, are better off.
In a rising market, enough of your bad ideas will pay off so that you'll never learn that you should have fewer ideas.
President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?
Kids are incredibly expensive. But it pays off later when they are better educated, bigger, and better-looking than you. And find you incessantly boring and uncool.
My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.
I like to have my hair grow, because I need to have hair for different roles. But I'm a woman, so I'm always cutting my hair off and wishing that I hadn't.
I'd listen to all the stuff that was going on around me and drift off into my fantasies about it. My fantasies have fuelled all the songs I've ever written.
