I firmly believe that you can't manufacture chemistry with anyone, let alone a kid.
You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
The only way to describe my involvement in 'Planes' is that it's an absolute dream come true for me. Getting to be a bad guy in any project is fun, let alone being a Disney villain. I can't imagine anything getting better than that!
Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.
It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravi...
To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.
When I first started tweeting, I was just doing it because I was watching 'Breaking Bad' in my trailer and I was so scared by the assassinating cousins. And when people started responding to me, I realized it was like I wasn't watching it alone.
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.
I was the youngest of three brothers by five years, so I spent most of my childhood playing alone, being Zorro or some other superhero, doing Lego, watching telly and riding my bike.
I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.
Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.
I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising ...
Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.
I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disapp...
When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.
If I lived alone, Mom'd never sleep because she wouldn't know I was okay.
