Once I fell out of a tree and was hit by a motorbike. I still have the scar on my head now.
I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
I can sing in my head and rearrange the tune of a song, note per note. I am a nerd.
The president may be a nice guy, but he's just over his head.
I slide my arm from under the sleeper's head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.
Once I get a project in my head, I start getting really obsessive about it.
One cannot understate the importance of eliminating Bin Laden. He was a symbolic head of the organisation and, as we now know, an operational head of the organisation.
Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.
I'm an adrenaline junkie but also a petrol head.
Whoever becomes the head of the National Theater finds himself in a position like that of Nelson's Column - pigeons dump on you because you're there.
Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head.
I have a tendency to postpone starting a piece until it's kicked around in my head a little bit.
My grandchildren just know me now as Mr. Potato Head.
When I'm sifting the compost seed or pruning, I argue over issues in my head; I talk to myself.
In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each month. For practical reasons, that didn't work out.
I got it into my head that I had somewhat neglected the guitar, and then I did a record called 'Arena,' and it was not a particularly bad record - it wasn't a bad record at all, but it was built around a certain concept, which is a guitar quartet, with a little bit of augmentation here and there.
In certain fight scenes in 'Raging Bull' - for example, the shorter ones - I literally just took the head and tail of the shot and put it together, and it all worked beautifully.
I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head.
