It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
I will accept anything in the theatre. . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.
Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion of this fascinating plant; whose kettle has scarcely time to cool; who with tea amuses the evening, with tea solaces the midnight, and, with tea, welcomes the morning.
I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.
At its heartmeat core, writing is about exploring the questions of your heart on the assumption that what intrigues you, what inflames or amuses or ennobles you, will have the same effect on someone else. It's about taking chances, and taking risks, and pushing yourself to be honest in the issues that present themselves.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
It amuses me when I'm described as 'chic. '
What still amuses me a bit is that in F1 people see the race basically on TV screens. But I am sure new tracks will be built.
When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.
I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water.
I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.
Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.
This is the thing: Art is more important than making a show, something that amuses people. Art is something that needs to give to the public, to the actors, to the artist - to give something that makes life the paradise it can be. Life can be a paradise. Still, I believe that. Even if there is Trump, there can be a paradise.
unrequitted love amuses me
