Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.
The hand that holds the money cracks the whip.
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery. But it does have to be furnished with things that mean something to you.
Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.
If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to write as the character would write, and I never forget that the average man, from the fields, the streets, the bars, the offices and even the gutters of his country, has acquired a vividness of speech that goes beyond anything I could invent, and that if I stick to this heritage, this logos of the American countryside, I shall attain a maximum of effectiveness with very little effort.
I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake
the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!
To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.
Of all composers, past and present, I am the least learned. I mean that in all seriousness, and by learning I do not mean knowledge of music.