I was now well prepared to be a career criminal. I had the proper training and a natural feel for the business. I had a respect for the old-liners like Angelo and Don Frederico. I had been a witness to both murder and betrayal and had my appetite whe...
Sometimes I felt lonely because I pushed people away for so long that I honestly didn’t have many close connections left. I was physically isolated and disconnected from the world. Sometimes I felt lonely in a crowded room. This kind of loneliness ...
Why? Why was it that in cases of real love the one who is left does not more often follow the beloved by suicide? Only because the living must bury the dead? Because of the measured rites that must be fulfilled after a death? Because it is as though ...
She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but she was as human as anyone else. She was lonely, too. Lonely in a way that perhaps only single girls fresh from small Midwestern towns know. Homesicknes...
When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye to my grandmother. And when we said goodbye to one grandmother, we said good-bye to all of them. Each funeral was a ...
He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut him off from any thought of shared life. He wanted to have more because he thought that having more...
I want you to know that you will not be alone in your loneliness,” he said. Her tear-filled eyes welled over. “You will be surrounded by your court…and all the beautiful ladies there.” Rodrigo shook his head. “I’ve never cared about any o...
Theodore: Well, the room's spinning cause I drank too much, cause I wanted to get drunk and have sex. There was something sexy about that woman... cause I was lonely... maybe just cause I was lonely. I wanted somebody to fuck me. I want somebody to w...
Get busy living or get busy dying.
I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
Professionals never guess—they make it their business to know their business.
Entertainment is business: the business of fucking art in the face.
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
If you aren't going out for business, you may go out of business.
For small businesses, regulatory burdens can be overwhelming.
In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
So I, I knew something in a business sense about semiconductors and I appreciated their possibilities.
There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of them.
