Something Quotes

No, I don’t do drugs anymore, either. But I’ll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I’ll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it’s not a very popular idea, you don’t hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth,

Of having seen something large and having found the right words to say it small, small enough to enter an individual mind so that the strong ideas of what the words are saying sound like sweet reason.

Writing well isn’t just a question of winsome expression, but of having found something big and true to say and having found the right words to say it in

If it’s something I can’t achieve, I tell them straight.

It’s perversion. Don’t you see what it is? It’s not natural. To go to great expense for something you want, that’s natural. To reach out to take it, that’s human, that’s natural.

There’s always way less improv than people think. The truth is something like 15 percent.

I’ve learned to really just say no. If I don’t want to do something, I won’t do it. There’s nothing that can make me do anything.

That they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up

In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head

One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.