Some directors involve waiting, and if you want to work with that particular director you're going to have to hang around.
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.
A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.
I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.
1. Don't be boring. 2. Be able to pass the airport test; be interesting enough to carry on a 3 hour conversation with a stranger. 3. When in doubt, do what you can never do again.
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.