You Quotes
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You aren't ill: it is just that you are made of second-rate materials.
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Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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You must prune dead or dying wood.
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
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A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.
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A lot of our fiscal deficit went to fund consumption and really did not get used to build investment and infrastructure. The trouble is, you can get a spurt in GDP growth, which may not be sustainable. I would much rather build the gradient of a long-term marathon.
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Anyone who tells you they don't need to rewrite, they're usually the ones who need it worst.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
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Yes, it's annoying that Hamlet doesn't kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, but if he did kill his stepfather ten minutes into the play, there wouldn't be a play. He has to be annoying, if you will, and not do what would be the thing to do.
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You realize mortality is everywhere.
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If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
