And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.
I went to the school and put it to William, particularly, that if you find someone you love in life, you must hang onto it, and look after it, and if you were lucky enough to find someone who loved you, then you must protect it.
I'm thinking, "What difference will this sermon make in their lives tomorrow? What am I trying to give them that will make a difference?" For example, had to do with the theme that Jesus will not let go of you. He's holding onto you. I talked to them about the disciples and Peter on the night before the crucifixion of Christ - how Jesus said that all of you are going to turn away, but He would be waiting for them in Galilee.
When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
Everybody's trying to hold onto some shred of dignity in the process of it all, and, at the same time, never talking about how they don't have the power. No one has the power. So, you know, producers - we always think, "Well, producers are very powerful," but producers don't really have the power.
You don't simply bundle people onto trucks and drive them away. . . I prefer to advocate a positive policy, to create, in effect, a condition that in a positive way will induce people to leave.
Holding onto something that's gone only makes a sickness inside.
I don't consciously try to take my readers on a journey as I don't really think about my readers when I'm writing. I just try to write what I feel passionately about, to tell a story down onto the page.
This is the personal side of things. When I started going through some of those transitions in my mind, just as a human being versus as an artist, I tried to. . . Essentially, I did this thing called Landmark Forum. It's three days of mind-expanding, existential philosophy, like Jean-Paul Sartre for everyday living. In existential philosophy they talk about "Being and Nothingness," this idea of not putting meaning onto things, and that in that way you live more purely. In other words, we form reality from these stories that we make up about our lives.
I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the end, judge us still more severely for the errors into which his own reproaches drove us?
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and letting the experience get through you onto the notebook with the pen, through the arm, out of the body, onto the page, without distortion.
Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers
God does not work by only one method, paint in only one color, play in only one key, nor does he make only one star shine onto the earth.
I love flinging everything I buy behind me onto the back-seat of the car: it's always full of packages when I travel, when I leap in my car!
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
Every Kenyan writer has offered me something to hold onto, something to believe in.
Don’t be stupid, Katra. Never speak in anger and never try to force your will onto someone else. You’ll never find peace in that. (Acheron)
We have a dire need to get onto the page as a sustainable country
When you jump onto the emptiness of the loneliness, the best parachute to land you safely will be the books!