Home is the center of life. It's the wellspring of personhood. It's where we say we're ourselves.
When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it.
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Rather than being a 'perversion' of Islam, it is truer to say that the version of Islam espoused by ISIS, while undoubtedly the worst possible interpretation of Islam, and for Muslims and non-Muslims everywhere obviously the most destructive version of Islam, is nevertheless a plausible interpretation of Islam.
I would say that the pharmaceutical industry is hyper-competitive from a global perspective.
We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.
Well, first of all, let me say that I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that really didn't pay off.
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
I hate when people say I Photoshop myself.
Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians.
My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
That's called a microphone. It's a big sausage that picks up everything you say - and you're starting early.
I'm not afraid to say I'm at war with the pigs.
I always say, 'I'm not a pirate, I just play one on TV.'
The big thing is, it's about learning which off-speed pitches to swing at. A lot of people say, 'Oh, this guy can't hit a curveball; this guy can't hit an off-speed pitch.' But it's about swinging at the right one. Swing at the hangers. Swing at the ones you can handle.
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
I love when people say 'Imitation Game' is such a crowd pleaser.
I have to say, 'Pod' was a bon-bon, a treat to myself. A treat to write: a happy, pleasurable write.
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
When you tell them you're a writer, they say, 'What have you written?' And then you've got to tell them what you've done. I don't ask a plumber what he does. Then I have to explain what I've done, and I haven't really, you know. I've just told some stories.
