When people put that sort of pressure on you, you're worried that people won't want to receive you.

I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.

My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.

I don't want to be anything other than what I've been trying to be lately.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in.

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.

If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.