It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.
The object of art is not to make salable pictures. It is to save yourself.
I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.
The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.
The life of reality is confused, disorderly, almost always without apparent purpose, whereas in the artist's imaginative life there is purpose. There is determination to give the tale, the song, the painting, form -- to make it true and real to the theme, not to life.
If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened.
Insecurity isn't an attractive quality in a man.
Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.
Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.