A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident.
If I a fancy take To black and blue, That fancy doth it beauty make.
Love is the fart Of every heart It pains the man when 'tis kept close, And others doth offend, when 'tis let loose.
Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite makes eating a delight.
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.
Expectation makes a blessing dear. Heaven were not heaven if we knew what it was.
Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.
I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier.
Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.
If I don't have a project going, I sit down and begin to write something - a character sketch, a monologue, a description of some sight, or even just a list of ideas.