Solitude was corrupting me.
I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.
I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.
I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.
I spill it out as fast as I can. I don’t really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.
You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.
A man can deceive his fiancee or his mistress as much as he likes and, in the eyes of a woman he loves, an ass may pass for a philosopher. But a daughter is a different matter.
As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.
You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.