More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.
One of the things I like so much about 'Goodnight Moon' is the way it leaves room for ambiguity.
With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.
I was really shy growing up. I had braces, headgear, and no boobs - still don't. So, the boys weren't interested in me. The only way I could get attention was by being a goof and a dork, which meant a lot of physical comedy.
Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
The only way to improve the GOP brand and make good public policy is to fix the process. This requires transforming the way Congress does business.
The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.
One of my favourite kinds of movie is the American picaresque, in which the characters make their way across the country, learning about life against the gorgeous backdrops of that vast land.
I look like a gorilla, just the way I'm built.
Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
We've got to find a way to use our identities to reach other people.
Siouxsie Sioux was such an inspiration when I was a teenager because I connected with these goth college students who listened to this genre of music. She showed me that femininity didn't necessarily have to look the way that I was familiar with. It could be more exciting and much more identifiable.
I wear a lot of black, but not in the goth way, I just really love black. I'll never be in pink or purples.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
It's hard to get people at a record company to talk about music. They don't seem to want to talk about music, it's all marketing, and that's part of a record, you gotta get it out there, people have gotta hear it, but you could do it in a way that's not repulsive.
You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Instead of standing in the way, technology is increasingly an enabler of emotion. A message at the wrong time at dinner can turn a gourmet dish into something insipid because of the interruption.
I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.
I said after 2006 that Republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. I mean, our party walked away from the principles that men in our national governing majority first in 1980 and again in 1994, and the American people walked away from us.
We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.
