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“Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.”
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“It's true that old actors don't die, their parts get smaller. You're less likely to get the part, many parts, if you're playing people your age as opposed to people who are younger. There are fewer parts around.”
Source : Interview with Paul Fischer, Dark Horizons, December 2, 2003.
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“I don't watch football anymore, I gave that up. I got tired of the interviews after the games, because the winning players always give credit to God, and the losers blame themselves. You know, just once I'd like to hear a player say, 'Yeah, we were in the game, until Jesus made me fumble. He hates our team.”
Source : "Comedy Central Presents: Jeff Stilson". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.
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“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.”
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“I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.”
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“I almost never do free writing. Unless I am forcing my students to do it.”
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“A good novelist loves all of his characters, he lives in them, even in those who commit or must commit terrible acts.”
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“I don't think I ever had a morning where I woke up and said I'm going to be a professional poet. I know I've always loved poetry, I've always loved writing poetry and I've always loved sharing poetry. I've also always known that I wanted that to somehow be a very large part of my life and I'm very fortunate that it's such a large part of my life.”
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“When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.”
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“Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a thought. Finally, writing builds another establishment with the fragments.”
Source : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.23, U of Nebraska Press
