If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
I am a proud Montrealer. Jobs will take me where they take me, but nothing will ever be able to convince me to leave my home.
In a home school, the kid does 95% of the work. But in a school system, since it's an indoctrination system, a teacher has to do 95% of the work.
Guns go home with the soldiers, but landmines are designed to kill - mindlessly, out of control, for years.
I think it is just a function of the fact that I moved around so much as a child that I learnt early on to make every place my home.
There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
If you're a misanthrope you stay at home. There are certain writers who really don't like other people. I'm not like that, I don't think.
I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.
Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man.
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
