When we started becoming friends, I was really doing a lot of cocaine, and he hated that. Prince was so against drugs.
the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.
The author lives with one foot in an everyday world and the other feeling about anxiously for a foothold in another more precarious one.
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.
I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.
. . . if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?
When indeed shall we learn that we are all related one to the other, that we are all members of one body? Until the spirit of love for our fellow people, regardless of race, color, or creed, shall fill the world, making real in our lives and our deeds the actuality of human brother- and sisterhood, until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.
there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations
I really don't want to say things such as 'I want to go back as how things were before. ' I recognize how I am right now, and I will continue to live on.