I don't know why one can't chase two rabbits at the same time, even in the literal sense of those words. If you have the hounds, go ahead and pursue.
Literature bores me, especially great literature
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise and blame because praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
We must travel in the direction of our fear.
Two daiquiris withdrew into a corner of a gorgeous room and one told the other a lie.
When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
They've got a wall in China, it's a thousand miles long. To keep out the foreigners, they made it strong. And I've got a wall around me, you can't even see.
We may not go about parroting truth and nonviolence and steering clear of them in our daily life.
I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll.