...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as if I shouldn't be there. My mind began to wander, as I knew it would, back to the boonies. I was on patrol again. Monaco was on point. Pee...
You can never know enough about your characters
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.
Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
I miss the personalization that Vegas was - there were showroom captains and all the dealers knew the gamblers by their first names.
One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.
There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion.
Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.
I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!
And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.
Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.
Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regar...
All of audio as we know it is an attempt to be more and more perfectly linear. Linearity means higher quality sound. Hypersonic sound is exactly the opposite: it's 100 percent based on non-linearity.
I invent by analogy. I thought, 'It's commonplace that you can mix colors, smear them together to get new emerging colors. Likewise, you can mix radio waves to get new frequencies.' So, I wondered, 'Why can't you mix sound to get new sounds?'
