A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.
There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing and purifying.
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
I told Tantalus to go chase a doughnut.
People can be trained in certain principles, but then they actually have to apply them and try them out.
Real thick strings - your hands start to get fatigued. As much as you practice, and as much experience as you have, and as long as you've been playing, there is a fatigue point during the show, as with anything that's physical. So I wanted to basically pace myself better.
After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.