I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. Further, science is a collaborative effort. I was too lazy to start a whole new story, so I just stuck a princess into the story I was working on... and The Princess Diaries was born! Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow. America can't beat anyone anymore. You were saying that once when visiting Yale, you were struck that unlike Pound, Williams's thinking was volatile, I mean, did not stay locked into a pattern of concepts that then defined his subsequent necessary behavior, whereas Pound did. I think my capacity to change has given me tremendous happiness, because who I am today I am completely content to be. The only people that you really have, that I learned, are your family, because they love you no matter what. Success is not something I've wrapped my brain around. If people go to those movies, then yes, that's true, big-time success. If not, it's much ado about nothing. I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker. Hip Hop has become real constrained. The creative juices and creative flows have been diminished. But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself. A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home. I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades. Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures. You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future. Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s. Compassion is no substitute for justice. It is exceedingly improbable that the identical action of the corresponding parts of the two retina is the result of a certain habituation, or of the influence of the mind. Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either. For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie. Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine. As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't. People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows? Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you. I wouldn't count myself as being a true blues guitarist because I feel you have to live it. I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA. The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.