I love to write music. I love melodies, I love playing guitar. I just do it for fun.
The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism. " If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage.
In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.
The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.