Loosen your girdle and let er fly!

Loosen your girdle and let er fly!

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.

For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.

Arizona is now recognized as a premier place in which to locate, expand and grow a business.

My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

All my books are about one major idea and two or three subsidiary ones. I have thought a lot about music when constructing books, and I like the way in music that themes come back.

We say that a group united and developed in the royal way, by forces of nature, is a race; a group united and developed by way of might, by human forces, is a state. This, then, is the difference between a race or nationality and a state.

The conflict between the need to belong to a group and the need to be seen as unique and individual is the dominant struggle of adolescence.

Once I have a hook I think has potential - enough to spin out more than a hundred thousand words, then I start turning my attention to characters. Who are these people? Why did this thing happen to them? But the hook always comes first.

I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.

It will be great to have a fashion career during and after my DJ career.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra cosmic intelligence.

It's fun to be able to have a fun palate, and the way I say that, you think about it and it sounds funny, but it's true.

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. God-like, he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis, completely expressible in words.

I'm married to a girl from Wales.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

Man's greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

I look to see what things I enjoy doing and just try to figure out how to spend my time doing things that I enjoy.

A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.

I'm not normally very adventurous with food.

Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.

For me, playing music while I write is important. Several of the romantic scenes in 'Paris' were written with Debussy's 'String Quartet,' his 'L'Apres-midi d'une Faune,' or Canteloube's 'Songs of the Auvergne' playing in the background.