Quotes About Author

My struggle has been graceful. Yes, I have taken money from family, but never from outsiders.

Yes, we need a force to continue to train, assist, advise the Iraqi army.

It was just this crazy craziness, and the fact that it was shot in Paris, and it had these incredible people in it. It was an easy thing to say yes to.

Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.

Would I like kids? If I knew I could be - and how could I put this delicately - faithful, then yes. I do like kids.

Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

People question me all the time about my experience. They question my experience in politics, and the first thing I always tell them is yes, I have no experience raising taxes over and over. I have no experience increasing the debt in a state.

Yes, I'm supposed to go back to New York to do Geraldo, and we're going to be doing The Tonight Show.

As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

Well if you were asking my personal opinion on that I think the answer can only be yes but it was missed. Much as I know I'm responsible for a lot of things, I can't wear any responsibility for that.

Yesterday, I did some painting then went out to buy an onion and came home and watched 'University Challenge.' The onion was probably the highlight.

Superstition? Who can define the boundary line between the superstition of yesterday and the scientific fact of tomorrow?

I live in Sheffield. I got the train in this morning. I had a walk yesterday afternoon and went to the pub in the evening. My family is very important to me.

Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

The Yiddish language is so rich and unusual that I've always been hooked on its sounds, although I don't speak it.

We're going to be the first city in America to give a Bitcoin yield as a dividend directly to its residents.

'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.

When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.

Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.

I consider Yoda to be just about the most evil character that I've ever seen in the history of literature.

If you don't have a Yoda impression ready to go, then it's just like, I don't really want to know you.

To compare Tensegrity with yoga or t'ai chi is not possible. It has a different origin and a different purpose. The origin is shamanic, the purpose is shamanic.