The former pension minister, the Liberal Democrat Steve Webb said I was trying to abolish the lump sum. Instead, we are going to keep the lump sum and abolish the Liberal Democrats.
Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
The Lighthouse' isn't scary. A few people have said it is, but I don't think it is.
I haven't said this yet, but my goal for this 'Beautiful' album is not to say, 'I'm beautiful,' or, 'OK, I'm so cool.' This is, honestly, an album written for the listeners.
Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it.
There's a lot to be said for loafing if you know how to do it gracefully.
When I first went to Fitzroy Lodge, I said I was going to be heavyweight champion of the world and retire when I was 30. This is when I was 10.
We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
One press account said I was an overnight success. I thought that was the longest night I've ever spent.
'Pitchfork' said something like, 'Michael Imperioli wrote a book that sounds like Lou Reed fan fiction,' which maybe it is. It's fiction, and I'm a fan. But it's not about me, and it's not a Lou Reed book.
I didn't want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.
I've said this over the years publicly - this is not a lucrative business. My goal every year is to break even with the White Sox.
I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do was let them hear what I had in mind.
It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.
I always watched Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson, and I said I could be playing on the court with them.
When I look at public opinion, I'm not far out of the mainstream. I'm in it, in many respects. In some respects, public opinion goes beyond anything I've ever said.
I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'
For me as a writer, Albanian is simply an extraordinary means of expression - rich, malleable, adaptable. As I have said in my latest novel, 'Spiritus,' it has modalities that exist only in classical Greek, which puts one in touch with the mentality of antiquity.
If my mama said not to do something, I didn't do it.
There's a lot to be said for having a small manageable dream.
