People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
When I'm old I shall give up writing the big stuff and shall wander round the park thinking of songs.
Not too many people are - were as good as Bob Hope. George Burns was great at thinking, you know, on the spot. Steve Allen was marvelous, and so was George Burns. But Bob may be the king of them all, you know.
You don't do anything thinking that it's going to stick.
I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.
Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
Yes, you know sometimes, we started out thinking out how strange our painting was next to normal painting, which was anything expressionist. You forget that this has been thirty five years now and people don't look at it as if it were some kind of oddity.
There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.
The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.