Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health.
I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.
I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.
I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.
One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.
I experimented with my own one-man show a couple of years ago in Aspen when HBO used to have their comedy festival there. I called it 'A History of Me.'
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way.
I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.
I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.
When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.
Because I was starting out in my 20's. I wanted to do it on my own. I didn't want to use my dad or have people say I was using him.
I was fantasising about my own death, I started thinking what my funeral would be like and what music would be played, I was at that level of insanity.
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
I am not opposed to doing a side project, like Death Cab for Cutie, where it's completely different from my own band.
The death of my own son has made me more sensitive. It's made me more compassionate.
Sigmund Freud said we act out our own dreams, but if you are only an actor you are not acting out your own dream. You are simply participating in someone else's dream.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
Even though I design my own jewelry, one of the great things about my job is being able to bring in really talented collaborators.
