There's something so empowering about knowing I can pick up an axe and split a piece of wood.
Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I'm not doing any of that right now. I don't have any axes to grind.
The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.
Virtue is not photogenic, so I liked playing bad guys. But, whenever I played a bad guy, I tried to find something good in him, and that kept my contact with the audience.
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
Wearing khadi was a badge of honour. It was something one was proud to do.
We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.
Bailing on a company is just something you don't do.
I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.
Well, let's assume the world is linear. If we required a certain amount of troops per 25,000 population in the Balkans, if the world is not radically different, something of the same extent is going to be needed in Iraq.
So I did 'Something Happened on the Way to Heaven' and the original version is a ballad. The original Phil record is uptempo but we slowed it down and made it a ballad.
Perseverance has always just been something that was in me. And it was a tool that came in very handy as a ballerina.
I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.
Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.
There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.
I think the first photograph I did was a ballplayer. It was a way of showing action or something.
There is no such thing as natural touch. Touch is something you create by hitting millions of golf balls.
The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
