I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.
I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.
Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.
Most book things now (with a few exceptions) are just built around nice, safe books written for nice and safe book club readers. These are usually the books you see on display at Barnes and Noble. These Internet writers are like literary terrorists to me. They're training as we speak. They're getting ready to invade. They're building an army.
We like something because someone else liked it.
I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.
Woods pumped both fists and yelled, as jacked as you'll ever see him. But the crowd explosion drowned out whatever was coming out of his mouth. It was the closest golf has ever come to sounding like fourth-and-goal at LSU's Tiger Stadium on a Saturday night.
We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
The threat today is not passivity, but pseudo-activity, the urge to "be active", to "participate", to mask the Nothingness of what goes on.
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.