You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

Time is the most important thing there is. That is the only element that you can't withdraw from the situation and still have the situation exist. Everything depends on time.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

I'm like a child trying to do everything, say everything and be everything all at once.

After you start learning all about the mechanics of piloting a riverboat, you stop seeing all the pretty sunsets and you start thinking about the weather.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.

I think I intimidate hecklers because I weigh more than most of them.

If the record was picked up by Dot Records, I would imagine that they would have wanted both sides of the record to be something by Lou alone which would account for the dropping of 'So Blue'.

With each replacement of parts a car slowly becomes Chinese.

I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there's a life after that, I'll love you then.

I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money - after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington.

People have maybe, sometimes, said that I can, occasionally, be a teeny bit edgy and judgmental.

If you have a guy like Jermaine, it's a pain in the neck. When we were on the road together in Europe, Jesus, I had to kick the girls off of him. I mean, they throw themselves on the floor and take off their hats.

My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.

Life is trying things to see if they work.

To define oneself is to suffer duality. One must avoid defining existence and identity.

I've always been bossy.

I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym bag.

The subscriptions were working so well, and on top of that, we saw the success of Netflix and Spotify and thought, 'We can create a similar kind of experience for books.'

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with David Usher of Moist, and he called the magazine the next day to say it was the best interview he'd done for his solo album. I felt like a million euros.

A novel, of course, is a fully self-contained work of art. You pick it up off the shelf, open it, and there it is - a whole universe waiting for you to enter. A screenplay is just a blueprint for making a movie. Until the movie is actually filmed, the script really means nothing.

He that has a choice has trouble.

My first tour I was on the road for 18 months. You're just out there promoting.

Tomorrow is a new day and it takes one ball to get you out but I am feeling confident and a double hundred is a possibility.

I wish I could go home. I've been on the road since May. I wonder if my dogs still remember me.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.

Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed people will forgive your noise if you fail theyll forget it.