Quotes About Author

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.

I was born in Tyrone, 1956, for something I didn't do. I was innocent. But they gave me life. I still remember the midwife who extradited me.

If I had a normal life Id quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

OCTOBER BABY is a profoundly beautiful story and a powerful testament to the importance of every human life.

Reading more than life teaches us to recognize ethos and pathos.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.

Mockery be damned, my urine looked delicious.

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

I thought about having a proper room, breathing life into it, and nobody minding.

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress. While we waste time on stuff like this, genuine legislation to protect life is ignored.