I've dreamed a lot of things and a lot of them have come true. The Grammy nomination was the last thing on my list before I had to write a new one. So I'm working on a new one.
I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.
Things went in a direction that I didn't want to go. I started doing bit parts and things that are pretty much laid out for people in my position. The parts were pretty generic.
The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.
A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.
As I was sitting in my chair, I knew the bottom wasn't there, Nor legs nor back, but I just sat, Ignoring little things like that.
I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it's like some kind of brain surgery...
readers are saying; “A great story about a fan's love for 'all things sport' ...” " Great read. Must buy as a stocking stuffer." “A great piece of work
But morning casts a harsh light over things, and the stark reality is that some things are easier to walk away from than to lose forever. But that doesn’t mean that this doesn’t hurt.
What you think can determine what you can achieve! So think big to achieve great things!
My children have absolutely no interest in my fame. They're very sophisticated, and they have a spiritual perspective on material things because we go to church.
(Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.
There's a lot of lying and these are people who are incredibly flawed, and not in very sort of empathetic ways, either. Some of the things they do are pretty awful and some of the things they do to each other are pretty awful.
Americans have a special horror of giving up control, of letting things happen in their own way without interference.
The industrial mind is a mind without compunction; it simply accepts that people, ultimately, will be treated as things and that things, ultimately, will be treated as garbage. (A Defense of the Family Farm, 1986)
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.
Even with the right political climate, would the wrong people refrain from doing the wrong thing?
I was in love with a beautiful blond once. She drove me to drink. That's the one thing I'm indebted to her for.
We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, even legally. Sex isn't a casual thing. It's a huge thing.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
