Richard Feynman Quotes
If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I think it would be shocking for me to pretend not to have any past. And also, it would be a lie.
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
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My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.
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There's no people like show people.
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When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'
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Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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Being called Gary. It's a crap name. I wish I'd been called by my middle name, Winston.
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To put it bluntly, the push for 'college for all' sets up students to fail.
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I experienced bullying a lot. I was an only child, and I was kind of a small kid with a big mouth, and so I always got myself in trouble.
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If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'
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My friends are the ones I've had since primary school. They're really cool and such a good bunch of people. They came to every one of my gigs before all of this happened, you know; they were there in the smoky pubs, wherever.
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Our worst instincts as human beings have to do with our carelessness with natural resources, and when the body itself becomes just one more of those resources, how will we treat it? Will we treat it with such indifference and with such depersonalization that it becomes more like a very fancy car than a repository of the self?
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If a guy tells me the probability of failure is 1 in 100,000, I know he's full of crap.
