I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.
Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.
According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.
The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.
I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.
In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
When you're kept out of the adult world, it's a blessing in disguise.
Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
I'm always trying to figure out what my taste is, what my likes and dislikes are.
I am dismayed to realize that much of the advice I used to parcel out to aspiring writers has passed its sell-by date.
My plumbing is all screwed up. Because it turns out, I do not own a garbage disposal.
Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.
I had set out to disprove quantum field theory - and the opposite occurred! I was shocked.
When a poll is really, really out of whack with what I want to happen, I do have a tendency to disregard it.
