If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the rain, the birds, the feel.
Teller and I worked Renaissance Festivals and street performing - actually more real, no kidding around, Philadelphia street performing than we did Renaissance Festivals.
Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
It's more necessary than ever before to ensure that discernment and the development of a critical mind guide our take on the world and inform our relationship to the media and information.
Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
I'd say people recognize me, but having children recognize me is the best. It is a very special thing. Suddenly you feel like you have the power to make the children's dreams come true, and it's better than anything else.
We need a Donald Trump more than we've ever needed anybody since George Washington.
My sore throats are always worse than anyone's.
'The Good Guy' is a totally differently-looking New York than 'How To Make It' portrays. 'The Good Guy' is all about Wall Street and that culture, which 'How To Make It' touches on, but 'How To Make It' also is downtown, Lower East Side loft parties, cool clubs, Brooklyn and that world.
The older I get, the more I believe in what I can't explain or understand, even more than the things that are explainable and understandable.
I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.
I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself.
One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.
Credit unions are often a better deal than banks and tend to pay higher yields on deposits.
In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
There's just kind of a sweetness about Canadians. Americans are a little more pushy, I mean, in a way that I enjoy - they're basically pushy because of their enthusiasm - we're a lot clumsier than other people.
When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
I never had trouble getting an agent. I went out and got my first couple roles, and literally within six months I never had to have another job other than acting.
When my girl do better than me, I still win. When I do better than her, she still wins.
There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.
I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
My favorite stories are about kids who refuse to give up; their homes and schools may have been destroyed; they've probably had to rely on themselves more than a lot of adults do, and they've resisted the many bad alternatives that city life offers to poor teens.
I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.
It's better to grow your employees, steer them into a place that they can learn and succeed, and want to work hard and be loyal, than to have a revolving door of employees. That's demoralizing.
My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.
I think there's more of opportunity to win games in the National League than the American League because there are more decisions to make.
I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house.
Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.
It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.
