In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely drinking beer cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes creating all the jobs raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances or whether you are going to taste it enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying losing cheating and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.
To the mind God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.
As we become purer channels for God's light we develop an appetite for the sweetness that is possible in this world. A miracle worker is not geared toward fighting the world that is but toward creating the world that could be.
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.
Having your fiscal house in order and having a more manageable macro-economic future is going to be very useful in creating growth.
Every thought we think is creating our future.
I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning... Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
When I turned about 12 or 13 I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
Movies don't look hard but figuring it out getting the shape of it getting everybody's character right and having it be funny make sense and be romantic it's creating a puzzle. Yes having been a writer for so long I have an awareness of when things are going awry but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.
For a Catholic kid in parochial school the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
The kind of funny irony is that a lot of people talk about ethical meat eating as if it's a way to care about things but also not to alienate yourself from the rest of the world. But it's so much more alienating than vegetarianism.
If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth inventor of television we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
If you're going through friendship issues I would say first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.