Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.
None are more liable to mistakes than those who act only on second thoughts.
The lazy are always wanting to do something.
Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.
We don't have enough time to premeditate our actions.
There are those who are so scrupulously afraid of doing wrong that they seldom venture to do anything.
Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.
In L. A. , if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L. A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L. A. , and the second is New York.
What is line? It is life. A line must live at each point along its course in such a way that the artist's presence makes itself felt above that of the model. With the writer, line takes precedence over form and content. It runs through the words he assembles. It strikes a continuous note unperceived by ear or eye. It is, in a way, the soul's style, and if the line ceases to have a life of its own, if it only describes an arabesque, the soul is missing and the writing dies.
You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.