His life was a book of his own writing, one orderly page after another.
clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.
. . . it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
I spent a long time working in the movies to figure out that kind of acting and also how to write and produce for the screen.
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
I don't like any nastiness on tv unless it's coming from me.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.