If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.
It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
I mean, the things you think will never happen, you have to confront; those things that come into your life that you thought you never could deal with, you do.
Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work.
As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.
My prayer is to learn new things, imbibe fresh insights. You must not take life too seriously. You must enjoy the process of living.
We're involved right now in some very significant legal battles and it would be the wrong thing for me to do to step out in the middle of those battles.
I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
As I enter a new phase of life and my circle broadens, I start learning new things.
The ability of the humans to not only function in space but be very functional when they arrive at their destination, those are the kinds of things we're learning from the science. Fuel transfer technologies and all the things we can learn about the ...
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock.
I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.
Athletes and actors do really crazy things, and we do them under weird circumstances because we love what we do and because we take things in an extreme manner.
I'm still kinda old-school. We're twittering, and we're all twitterers. And we write tweets. The only thing I don't love is twits.
A very disappointing outcome is always destined to happen to anyone who chases material things in search of happiness.
There is such a suspicion in today's world of people who do more than one thing, who aren't specialized.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
