Always Alone famous quotes

Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary

The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.

If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.

Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world.

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.

Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.

I just loved going fast. So I started out with Alka-Seltzer and soda water in a bottle and attached it to the skateboard. That didn't do much. I would try a leaf blower. I was searching for anything that would go fast. Then, the lawnmower engine.

I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.

And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.

If I have to put anyone to bat for my life, it'll be Kallis or Dravid.