quotes about Always Alone

“Do you think that Hemingway knew he was a writer at twenty years old? No, he did not. Or Fitzgerald, or Wolfe. This is a difficult concept to grasp. Hemingway didn't know he was Ernest Hemingway when he was a young man. Faulkner didn't know he was William Faulkner. But they had to take the first step. They had to call themselves writers. That is the first revolutionary act a writer has to make. It takes courage. But it's necessary”

“The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge right or make good decision.”

“If I couldn't read, I couldn't live.”

“Coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. It's global warming. It's ruining our country. It's ruining our world.”

Source : "Glenn Reynolds and Mickey Kaus on Barack Obama’s slum lord problem, and global warming, Indian style". Interview with Hugh Hewitt, www.hughhewitt.com. July 2, 2008.

“Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.”

“Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

“I just loved going fast. So I started out with Alka-Seltzer and soda water in a bottle and attached it to the skateboard. That didn't do much. I would try a leaf blower. I was searching for anything that would go fast. Then, the lawnmower engine.”

“I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.”

“And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.”

“If I have to put anyone to bat for my life, it'll be Kallis or Dravid.”