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“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Source : Quoted in Bulletin (San Francisco), 2 Dec. 1916.
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“I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.”
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“I think indie films are really important, because they show the studios and the audiences when they see them, great stories. Really interesting, small stories.”
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“And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.”
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“It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.”
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“All who wait upon the Lord shall rise higher and higher upon the mighty pinions of strong devotion, and with the unblinking eye of faith, into the regions of heavenly-mindedness, and shall approach nearer and nearer to God, the Sun of our spiritual day.”
Source : John Angell James, Thomas Smith James (1861). “The Christian Life”, p.329
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“There’s no path to liberation that doesn’t pass through the shadow.”
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“Nobody knows how long you're going to have life on Earth, so you really have to work at being joyous and happy.”
Source : Source: www.mtv.com
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“As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.”
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“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”
