Say Quotes

There was nothing left for me to do. Do you know how hard it is to say nothing ? When every atom of you strains to do the opposite?

Striving is exhausting. Sometimes I do say things like, ‘I wish I were not quite this driven to be excellent.’ It’s not a comfortable life. It’s not relaxed. I’m not relaxed as a person. I mean, I’m not unhappy. But… it’s the opposite of being comfortable.

Bob Dylan said to the producer, turn up the organ. And Tom Wilson said, oh man, that guy’s not an organ player. And Dylan said.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

All I can say is that you make me… you make me into someone I couldn’t even imagine.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

Conspiracy! Intrigue! A rapidly thickening plot! Add some bestiality and a lecherous priest and I’d say you have the beginnings of a beautiful novel.

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.

If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.