Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
There are terrible things that never get easier, and there are things even more terrible that get easier with time and repetition.
Whatever I was writing at the time, I knew there was no market for it and never would be, because there’s never a market for true art, so my main concern was always to have a job that didn’t require me to write or think.
I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.
I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.
My social status in the last year has gone from zero to hero.
I'm enough of an anarchist aesthetically, when it comes to art - I want people to be reading my stuff voluntarily. They should be doing it because they want to.
I think the foundation at Berkshire [Buffett's stake in Berkshirewill pass to the Buffett Foundation upon his death] will be a plus because there will be a continuation of the culture. We'd still take in fine businesses run by people who love them.
If things were simple, word would have gotten around.
We're always pitching ideas and being told "no thank you. " No offense taken, because I would so much rather be told the truth that they're not interested and be able to find the right show for that network down the line.
The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.