We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.
It's not the note you play that's the wrong note - it's the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
In music, silence is more important than sound.
Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army. " "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.
Have faith in God; God has faith in you.
A lot of people think I'm naturally confident. I am not naturally confident!
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.