The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.
It seemed inequitable at best that one could and did gain a reputation for things that left one both physically and emotionally unsatisfied.
It was not the size of things that mattered but their perfection, it was not what one had that was important, but what one made.
My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
I replaced three joints in my hips and one in my knee. I'm hoping that other knee doesn't have to be done. It's one of the toughest things to overcome.
I look up to as God every person, thing or thought that makes life worth living one day longer
I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
Doing things in my day was simple: you either signed to a big label or you signed to a very small label, and you worked with that one, and then they eventually signed you on to a big one.
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.
Acting is one of those things that anybody can do because no one can learn it, but only a few people can really do because it's nothing you can learn.
There's a thing called the 'One Drop' theory in African-American culture, which is if you have one drop of black blood in you, you're black.
I watched a lot of TV, and it clicked one day that these people were acting. It sounded like the most fun thing ever.
I would say that one of the things that we are proud of is that we are attracting very interesting guest stars. One is Tyne Daly, who has done a wonderful job.
The sounds of silence are a dim recollection now, like mystery, privacy and paying attention to one thing — or one person — at a time.
I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.
If one day she'll forgot the things about me, then I wish we haven't had this chance to know each other.
You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better.
The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there. But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that.
Without form, communication stops... without form, you have everybody burbling on to themselves, whenever and however, things that no one else can understand and - rightly - no one else is interested in.
It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
