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“You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children.”
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“Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.”
Source : "Being John Cusack". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 23, 2009.
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“I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.”
Source : Book-of-the-Month Club News, May 1985.
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“However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.”
Source : "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.
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“Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something is unplugged, but you are still fully here. Senses are functioning normally. This was never the trouble. The mind rises up as resistances and doubts but they are mere thoughts. Mind in its psychological aspect can come full power, but you are not to be a traffic policeman inside your own head.”
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“If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow.”
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“I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.”
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“I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.”