Quotes About Perspective

Projective geometry is all geometry.

George Carlin maintained that anything and everything is funny given the right context. This context also includes your own history with a given group. What I can get away with and where I can go is not a problem with my audience because they know me.

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

I've thought a lot about the world and how George Bush sees the world and it ain't even close.

If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'

George Bush is a catastrophe for the world. And a dream for Bin Laden.

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really on the cards.

What happens to George Clooney and Bruce Willis is great, but I can't gauge my career by anyone else's.

I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.

Some might think that George W. Bush had his shortcomings, but let me tell you something - history's going to be kind to George W. Bush.

I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush.

I talk about things that happened in my life. Now, do I embellish? Absolutely. Come on, we all do it. It makes for a better story. But it always comes from a germ of truth.

Living in Germany Africanised me.

Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to ask, 'Is this a story worth telling?'

Living in London is very different to living in a little town in Germany.

As people get older, they get married, have kids. I'm not married. I don't have kids, so I'm able to focus 100 percent on this.

When there's a war, people get married.

You know, I might get married at 50 or 60, when it actually means something to say 'for the rest of my life.'

I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?'

I'm the kind of guy who'll go to a courthouse and get married, but for women, it's different. It means a lot to them.

I never set out to get married and the way things have worked out I never have.

Also, I thought the main reason people get married is to have children. And since having kids had never been of interest to me, I didn't think marriage was necessary.

And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?

As for getting married, I don't have strong feelings, really - I can take or leave it.