There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know.
Even the good angels, I think, would inspire in humans some sort of fear.
One is but a shade of the other.
There are always those who would put on armour and go into battle. but the real genius is in finding a way to get what you desire without dying for it.
When the time comes, we can only expect that we have learned enough to succeed.
I believe a good memoir should have all of the narrative elements of a novel: character development, dialogue, descriptive language, and metaphor.
I started listening to the Cure around the time I discovered Joy Division and, like Joy Division, they have shaped my taste in all sorts of dark and dreary ways.
I want to die painting.
There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L. A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.
We are working to help people become better people; then this will become a better world.