I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others they have a hundred when alone.

The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers all alone in their studios with no one watching.

Before the throne of the Almighty man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20 totaling more than 750 000 girls per year.

No but way before that I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah that was an amazing chance. You know at my age to be able to do a music dance video very unusual.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it and given a family character as it were to the century.

I think I'm a bit less inhibited and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.