I usually say I left puberty at 58.
Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe holding public office.
In order to maintain public trust in government, elected officials must answer for what they do and say; this includes 140-character tweets.
I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.
You go through publicists because it's easy for a publicist to say to another publicist, 'No'.
Doris Lessing really doesn't care what the critics say. In fact, she orders her publishers not to send her the reviews and gets cross with them if they do because she doesn't want that in her head. She's going where she's going, and that's where she wants to go.
I do work a lot. I mean, most of my income, I would say, comes from live performances. And then you've got publishing, you've got record royalties.
Have I tried a black pudding? I'll eat anything - I'm not finicky - but that's not to say it takes any courage to eat black puddings because I find them delicious.
I can't even say Puff and me are like brothers, 'cause we closer than that.
Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
It's important to me that no one can say I'm not pumping out high-level research.
When the Bible and the Gospels say that the victims should have been spared, they do not merely 'take pity' on them. They puncture the illusion of the unanimous victimization that foundational myths use as a crisis-solving and reordering device of human communities.
I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.
When you say, 'When you're wrong, you're wrong,' I would 100 percent agree. I've always handled my punishments head on.
I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking.
I like to say I'm like a puppy in a room of cats.
Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.
After 'Quantum Leap,' a lot of sci-fi things came my way, and I had to say, 'I can't do that right now.'
I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.
