I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

The bottom of the sea is cruel.

I got so I simply gagged everytime I sat before my desk to write an ad.

The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections.

Your primary presumption that The Bridge was proffered as an epic has no substantial foundation. You know quite well that I doubt that our present stage of cultural development is so ordered yet as to provide the means or method for such an organic manifestation as that.

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

I think the sea has thrown itself upon me and been answered, at least in part, and I believe I am a little changed - not essentially, but changed and transubstantiated as anyone is who has asked a question and been answered.

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much of the time - until my instincts assured me that I had assembled my materials in proper order for a final welding into their natural form.

Conscience is a mother in law whose visit never ends.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image.

Do you often find yourself uttering the phrase, 'I feel like I should go?' You do not need to go. You are busy that night. You are busy every night, forever.

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps... It just feels right.

One of the advantages bowling has over golf is that you seldom lose a bowling ball.

Don't block with your face!

A watched pot never boils

Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

It is kindness to immediately refuse what you intend to deny.

When everything around you is crazy it is ingenious to stay calm.

Softwawre is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating.

The last thing I stole was a box of Coca Cola from a parked truck in Adelaide. I was nice and drunk. It was New Year's Eve. And that was about 28 years ago.

The Qataris have cut off support for the most extreme elements of terrorist organizations.

Keeping customers is about the experience, and the employees control the culture and temperature of the business. Never forget that.

Metal isnt necessarily aggressive. Theres metal thats contemplative theres metal thats sad and theres metal thats exuberant. No genre is limited in what it can express.

Complaining is mouth farting. And like any farting I dont mind hearing my own but I dont want to hear anyone elses.

Mediocrity always measures success by money.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.

I don't think there is a person who loves the Nets as much as I do - from our fans, all the employees in the arenas, the front office personnel and the owners. I will always be loyal to our fans and the Nets.

If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.

I always want to wear clothes that my children will one day look back on and say, 'Oh, you looked amazing - why didn't you keep that?' Not, 'Oh my God - I can't believe you wore that.'