The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.

I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.

I collect things that just look retarded.

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads.

At 12 I dropped out of school but I had lost interest in it at a much earlier age. For me, school was very very stressful.

I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.

I didn't read at all until I was 12. I just couldn't. It was too frustrating.

I think what my father appreciated was the science experiment of life. He had these kids, and they had their own experiences. He wanted us to discover the world for ourselves.

I would ask my parents something, but then go to my siblings. We were encouraged to bounce ideas off everyone.

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.

Youre my reflection all I see is you.

I think perhaps love comes from finding someone you feel utterly comfortable with, someone who makes you comfortable with yourself. It's like...finding yourself, or maybe it's like finding the other part of yourself.

You should pull him back besides in all the lines before the quarter, just as you make the others advance.

I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.

Don't wait on perfect conditions for success to happen; just go ahead and do something.

People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times.

Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is read to or hugged.

I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird.

With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.

Saying what we think gives a wider range of conversation than saying what we know.

The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients.

The whole vanity aspect of building up different muscles - I have no interest.

I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.

Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel.

It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one.

We cannot destroy kindred our chains stretch a little sometimes but they never break.

I like being able to be a man.

I just planted the family vegetables yesterday. You name it, I grow it.

I think that ultimately I just have to be myself. You know, I don't do anything that outlandish anyway.

It felt good to actually have a decent swim.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

A lot of people have dementia which is great because then they dont recognize me.

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

The Marine Corps taught me how to kill, but it didn't teach me how to deal with killing.