It's an honour and a thrill and a privilege just to play in the NHL.
Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of you...
An author's characters do what he wants them to do.
Born ham, that's basically me.
Most of all, I dislike this idea nowadays that if you're a black person in America, then you must be called African-American. Listen, I've visited Africa, and I've got news for everyone: I'm not an African.
If every American donated five hours a week, it would equal the labor of 20 million full-time volunteers.
A street thug and a paid killer are professionals - beasts of prey, if you will, who have dissociated themselves from the rest of humanity and can now see human beings in the same way that trout fishermen see trout.
I don't like having characters as props. I never want a character to be a prop.
I like to deconstruct things, deconstruct genres and stories.
I try not to read the Internet because it's mostly just a sea of hatred.
Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: 'Open Bar.'
Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an 'excuse me'. Typical.
Pressed caviar has the consistency of chilled tar.
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.
We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.
I see the player piano as the grandfather of the computer, the ancestor of the entire nightmare we live in, the birth of the binary world where there is no option other than yes or no and where there is no refuge.
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
I grew up in southwestern Virginia. I was born in South Carolina, but only because my parents had a vacation cabin or something there on the beach. I was like a summer baby. But I did grow up in the South. I grew up in serious, serious Appalachia, in...
I'd always maintained that much of the anarchy and craziness of the early Internet had a lot to do with the fact that governments just hadn't realised it was there.
That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That's only one thing you can do with it, but it's one of the things I find most entertaining about it.
