The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.
Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
Humour is essentially a comforter, reconciling us to things as they are in contrast to things as they might be.
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism. " If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry.
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
They say the blues is sad, but when B. B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!
I don't think escaping is necessarily a problem, but we can get addicted to almost anything. If you're craving being in this other reality and you don't want to participate in your own reality, those are the times we have to start asking ourselves difficult questions.
Floyd could imagine a dozen things that could go wrong; it was little consolation that it was always the thirteenth that actually happened.
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.