Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
In Toledo, people grow out. Out to the suburbs. Out to the parts of America where the economy is more vigorous. And all too often, out to 48-inch waistbands.
I was a mimic when I was a child. I mimicked the teacher and made friends that way, actually. That was a very subversive activity, because I was a goody-goody who never got in trouble. But if I went off in the corner and mimicked the teacher, people loved it.
I'm always trying to, using literature, subvert people's responses.
I'm drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories in ways that subvert expectations. That's always been fun for me to play and always been fun for me to write.
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
If the people like watching me, see me as an example of someone succeeding, as a young guy who has the will to win, then I'm happy.
If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed.
I have long believed that success stories need a bit of balance. We only hear from people who risked it all, and found it paid off.
You're always in a blessed position if you have a great success story, especially to be in a position to be able to tell it so people can even understand.
Most employees want to be involved in a successful business and most employees are happy for people running successful businesses to be paid a reasonable wage and a market rate for it, provided they understand the reason. What they hate most of all is pay for failure.
The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
I am with a very successful man, and the crazy thing is people think that it makes my career easier.
Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.
Nobody's perfect. Even the most successful people make serious mistakes.
Successful people often exude confidence - it's obvious that they believe in themselves and what they're doing. It isn't their success that makes them confident, however. The confidence was there first.
