Quotes About Author

Don't expect Barton Biggs to be offering his market insights on 'Bloomberg News' anytime soon. His plumber, maybe.

'EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

College had little effect on me. I'd have been the same writer if I'd gone to MIT, except I'd have flunked out sooner.

Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise.

I think audiences are quite sophisticated.

I think, at least for me, I'm so impressed by Shanghai and how all of China continues to evolve. On a style level, you're seeing this increased sophistication and brand awareness.

The great advantage of having a bear as a central character is that he can combine the innocence of a child with the sophistication of an adult.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

With all due respect to the people who made the motorcycle movies during the '60s, I felt the sophistication level could be a bit higher, and I felt I could raise the bar on that, too.

I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

I first came to the Garden when I was a sophomore in college. The old, old Garden.

My main memory of 'Soft Sounds' was that I was so convinced that 'Psychopomp' was this fluke - I had this real pressure of avoiding the sophomore slump.

Chapman pushes internships a lot, and starting the summer of sophomore year we started interning because we knew that was the best way to make connections.

I felt Ancelotti did a good job for Chelsea and, like many fans, we are sorry for what happened to him.

I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.

I'm sorry, but there is absolutely no reason why bacon envelope glue should exist, let alone be so popular that it's sold out.

I wouldn't give Charles Barkley an apology at gunpoint. He can never expect an apology from me... If anything, he owes me an apology for coming to play with his sorry, fat butt.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'

I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.