I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

I am convinced that in the arts, committees are useless.

I disliked singing in English and neither liked the story nor the character of Cressida.

I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard.

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.

I take Epsom salt baths.

I'm used to being coached. Something I learned long ago is that a coach is trying to make you better and to be the best version of yourself.

Look at an infantryman's eyes and you can tell how much war he has seen.

We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels.

I operated a business where I let someone steal three-quarters of a million dollars.

'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set.

In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

He imagined them sitting somewhere just enjoying each others company her head on his chest his arm around her. And he realized how desperately lonely he had become.x9D

Sure, sure, I'd like to see Apples built in the United States, not built in China. I'd like to see them have factories in the United States. At least partially. They make nothing in the United States, virtually.

I like being in charge of the remote control.

At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

Golf was never a religion to me.

Small businesses are the backbone of Oklahoma's economy, creating a large portion of jobs in our state.

Put me on telly, and I think I have a relaxation on camera that makes an audience relax, too. It's not a conscious thing. Cameras don't bother me, whereas other people try to perform to them.

I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.

Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

It's a struggle every day to get people to invest financially in portrayals of women that aren't satisfying to straight white men.

My efforts to join the fight against breast cancer all began around the fact that women were getting short-changed in the medical arena.