The book is not a cut-and-paste job. Yeah, I have a blog, but the material in the book is all new. The blog deals with my life now, whereas as the bo….

Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going to happen. You have a broad s….

From my point of view it's impossible to cut debt in a country with new debt from another country..

It doesn't seem that the female brain is organized for fetishes. I suspect it has to do with our animal backgrounds. Fetishes are a frustration fall ….

First, we must stop wasting energy. A quarter of the UK's carbon emissions come from the home. Our housing stock - the oldest in Europe - is costing ….

The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd..

A big mistake a lot of filmmakers do is they like, "We cut our whole ending to a Rolling Stones song." You better find a new ending then, because unl….

Usually, I have in mind what I want to do. I shoot pretty economically, so I'm not shooting tons of stuff that I could change, all that much. I'll cu….

I'm the first secretary of defense that's had to deal with sequestration. I've prepared two budgets that deal with sequestration. And you bring the c….

Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with the….

I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him..

Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And….

I have heterochromia, meaning that one eye has two split colours. It's a diagonal cut in half. It's amazing how many people don't know that until the….

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'.

Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life….

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..

There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduc….

Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who need better schools and….

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son..

Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness lat….

The first time I cut all my hair off was when I was 19. I just got fed up going to the salon every week. I'd had enough! On a whim, it was off. It's ….