Eating's not a bad way to get to know a place.
Bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel.
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.
I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.
My dislike has no consequences. It accrues only in my mind—like preserves on a shelf or guns zeroing in, and never firing.
Self-pity” is just sadness, I think, in the pejorative.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.
sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. you just need to know what you're going to do next!
I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.
When you know what a man wants you know who he is, and how to move him.