My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.
We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.
The idea that you've been friends for your whole life and then suddenly the other person becomes your job - it would be so weird. It would be hard not to become massively resentful.
I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.
I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.
I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
In a magazine, one can get - from cover to cover - 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.
An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.
You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life.
People often get very entangled in their work and life, so de-stressing is very important to keep generating fresh ideas and provide satisfaction with one's activities.
The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.
My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
I always loved the idea of learning martial arts, but it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I really started doing it and taking up karate.
It's not a matter of learning lines. It's a matter of getting into the ideas and the will of the person. It's a matter of, 'What does he want to do? What does he want to achieve?'
I saw a Shakespeare play when I was - I guess I was in junior high. And I just fell in love with the theater because, for me, it was a combination of big ideas and feeling.
I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures.
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
I love the idea that someone I like would have a piece of mine in their house and have a relationship with it.
