All characters have a voice but not all voices have character. And it's all about character and personality.
Life You have been good to me. . . . You have not made yourself too dear to juggle with.
As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!
Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes. . . Of the cauled beginnings. . . Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive. . . ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief. . . Let me blow the dust from off you. . . Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.
I shall know you, secrets by the litter you have left and by your bloody footprints.
Better--while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream. . . Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick.
Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.
Speaking of Self-realizatio n is a delusion. It is only because people have been under the delusion that the non-Self is the Self and the unreal the Real that they have to be weaned out of it by the other delusion called Self-realizatio n; because actually the Self always is the Self and there is no such thing as realizing it.
Saturate your preaching with the gospel in the church, so that you people speak gospel in the world.
I don't remember spending any time with anybody on set. I don't spend a lot of time with people.
Impact in advertising today is 80 percent strategy, 20 percent copy. This makes it nearly impossible for good copy to compensate for weak strategy.