We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!
Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.
I don't define myself by my successes. I define myself by adversity and how I've persevered.
I don't really know how to describe my personal style.
I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get.
I really do not know. I really do not know how to solve the problem of the Philippines. I cannot be the savior of this republic.
If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
My writing philosophy is throwing spaghetti against the wall. That's how I take pictures, too. If I take 100, surely one will be good.
I feel like I've paid a really heavy cost, a really heavy physical health cost, for the years of touring and how physical I've been onstage.
One of my favorite things is to first read a novel and then see the movie. I enjoy picturing the characters and then later, seeing them on the screen, comparing how they're different.
I just write stuff down and pile it up, and when I get enough stuff, I spread it out and look at it and figure out how to use it.
No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn't take the first pill that comes along.
You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.
That's how you win - pitching and defense.
Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.
As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.
In 'Hollow City,' I'm taking all the characters out of the lives they've been secure in for years and plunging them into the unknown. That's how you really get to know them.
