William S. Burroughs Quotes
This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
Quotes to Explore
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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I'm a huge Disney nut. I have been since I was a little kid.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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When I'm in the studio, I'm strictly thinking about the beats, the rhymes and the song. The decision I make once the songs are created, and there's a barcode put on the package, and I'm out there in the street selling it, those decisions as a businessman are different than the creative decisions you make.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.
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Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
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My latter schooldays and my university days were during the war, when science - physics, in particular - was a very important and glamorous subject. A lot of us felt that if we couldn't get into science, we might try engineering or medicine.
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The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
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The goal for Shondaland is to continue to make very good shows that we're proud of when they're ready.
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This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
