DJ Paul Quotes

Everything that individuals ever say or write can be used against them at a later point.

I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.

Sometimes it's very difficult to find fresh fruit on the road.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.

There is sometimes only a very fine line between deliberation and procrastination.

My family was a good family, I had a great Canadian education and I came up in a great, little town like Ottawa.

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong.

Even when we want to be timid and play it safe, we should pause for a moment to imagine what we might be missing.

I watch TV more than I used to, and the commercials don't impress me. The standard of execution is very high, but the standard of ideas is appalling.

You will become whoever you want to be.

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

Life's all about 'me' anyway

There are rules in advertising, and those rules are self-imposed by the client companies because they don't want their products to be seen as dishonest.

It is quite sensible for them to sit back and see where they are.

I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.

People say you have to travel to see the world. Sometimes I think that if you just stay in one place and keep your eyes open, you're going to see just about all that you can handle.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

The kind of fiction I'm trying to write is about telling the truth.

Cities - I'm attracted to them, and I have a special attachment to New York...it's my place.

How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

Stories happen only to those who are able to tell them, someone once said. In the same way, perhaps, experiences present themselves only to those who are able to have them.

People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.

Fiction creating reality.

Most people are participating in the grand adventure of living with one another.

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

As long as there's one person to believe it, there's no story that can't be true.

You find the book in the process of doing it. That's the adventure of the job.

Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.

Writing is, after all, a gesture towards other people, giving something to others. And so it's not a completely hermetic exercise. It's really an opening up.

You tend to feel very hurt when people attack you and feel indifferent when you get praise. You think, 'Of course they like it. They should like it.'

I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.

Each man, therefore, is the entire world, bearing within his genes a memory of all mankind. Or as Leibniz put it: ‘Every living substance is a perpetual living mirror of the universe’

I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.

I thought I was terrible [to play a cameo] and decided never to act again.

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.

There are often references to childhood, but they're rarely the focus of the [my] novels.

For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search for the names.

In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it

It's beyond the grasp of anyone's memory to recall conversations in kind of [memoir] detail. So it's fake. It's all made up.

Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.

There is a double rhythm in all human beings. We are binary beings - two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears. Two legs for walking. And the heartbeat thumping in our chest mirrors that.

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

The things we remember are often things that have great emotional importance, and so they have a lasting effect.

Books demand more. You have to be a more active participant.