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I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.
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I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
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I think you find pieces of yourself in every character you portray.
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Were way overdue on a woman sitting in one of those Big Three chairs.
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In the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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In LA, I mean, here's this place full of desperate and sad people who take their only pleasure from destroying others for the purposes of their own self-aggrandizement.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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And just as the false assumption that we are not connected to the earth has led to the ecological crisis, so to the equally false assumption that we arenot connected to each other that has led to our social crisis.
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I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.