All the things you're not supposed to do at the beginning of your professional life - transgressiveness, arbitrariness and violating expectations - you find more attractive at the end of your professional life.
The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.
Life has all sorts of hills and valleys, and sometimes you don't end up doing what you had your heart set out on, but sometimes that's even better!
All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.
Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books.
I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.
At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'
As much as I love the Western genre, I figured if I kept doing those, I'd eventually run out of steam on that, and that would've been the end of it.
A film that I love is 'Deliverance' from back in the day. You start out with these archetypal characters - the hero, the bookworm, the pacifist - and by the end, it's all turned upside down. I love that.
When I go to a movie, I'm always thrilled if I've seen an actor do something and I didn't realize until the end of the movie that that was that person. I love that.
I don't have real big aspirations to be a movie star. I would love to be on a long-running hit TV show. You end up playing a defining role.
I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.
Until the end of time, a winning positive attitude will always conquer all struggles, challenges and obstacles.
Keep pushing with faith, hope and courage, for there is a very valuable prize waiting for you at the end of your struggle.
There is always a strong need for self-education during and after school education. Education is a never-ending process of intellectual growth.
At the very end of every struggle comes a precious reward that worth all your blood, sweat and tears.
The road to knowledge has no definite end to it. It keeps on going for however long your stay on earth is.
Until the end of time, success will always be available to anyone who is willing and ready to pay its price.
