For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
I have one president at a time. I only work for you.
I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!
Heat can also be produced by the impact of imperfectly elastic bodies as well as by friction. This is the case, for instance, when we produce fire by striking flint against steel, or when an iron bar is worked for some time by powerful blows of the hammer.
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.
My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.
Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.
I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.
I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.