Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
People don't very much like things that are beautiful. . they are so far from their nasty little minds.
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
I had been working on a second book with [David] Petraeus called Relentless. Obviously that book and the income that it would have generated went away.
My vision is a future for humanity where we will be completely free to pursue activities outside of our planet.
Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.
I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.