What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
My restless roaming spirit would not allow me to remain at home very long.
I would go to work from 9 to 6 go home nap for two hours then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?
I would have gone home to my mother but I'm not that crazy about my mother.
I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home at least I'll have a window with a view.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Ancient recipients of instant news probably couldn't do very much about it for instance. Xerxes would still need three months to get his army together and he might not get home for years.
If you got a good imagination a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.
I never would have given up my work to stay home.
I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.
There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting thinking to myself That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.
My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.
I would love to have a robot at home.
However painful the process of leaving home for parents and for children the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home.
If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.
For example I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say 'Oh my God. Demetri you're working at the White House.'
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
General Howard informed me in a haughty spirit that he would give my people 30 days to go back home collect all their stock and move onto the reservation.
Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.
Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people working really hard and pleasing people which is probably related to my father in some way. But I really liked working hard. When I worked at Disneyland I'd do 12 hours straight and go home thrilled.
The perfect date for me would be staying at home making a big picnic in bed eating Wotsits and cookies while watching cable TV.