I seem to be incapable of playing that guy that always does the right thing, who always responds well in any circumstance.
I was thinking about how people seem to read the bible a lot more as they get older, and then it dawned on me—they’re cramming for their final exam.
Y'ever notice how you never seem to get laid on Thanksgiving? I think it's because all the coats are on the bed.
Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down.
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.
America has always had an apocalyptic strain. Yet it also seems to believe that if, or when, The End comes, it will still come out on top.
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.
Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'
One of my most laughable moments was when we visited the monkeys in Ubud - they really seemed to like me and at one point, I had three males on my head and shoulders.
It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.
It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.
It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained.
If I see something that's extremely challenging, I'm like, 'That seems really hard. Let's try it.' It's just my personality.
I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
