S.A. David Quotes

I'm six foot four, an all-American guy, and handsome and talented as well!

Being a professional means doing your job on the days you don't want to do it

War is the ultimate reality-based horror show.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder where you are. Looking up is no solution; The sky's so full of light pollution.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

I think once you've seen a song with a video, it limits your own mind's ability to read into it anything other than what you've seen.

It would be a fine thing if war could be conducted as a game where no lives were lost. At the end of a battle combatants could meet [...] and drink and talk.

I believe we're all in denial about the people we love.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it's not that way at all, it's something else.

Your life isn't made up of people who aren't in it.

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.

Acceptance is usually more a matter of fatigue than anything else.

K--: 'When they say "I am my own person," "I do not need a man," "I am responsible for my own sexuality," they are actually telling you just what they want you to make them forget.

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.

Te Occidere Possunt Sed Te Edere Non Possunt Nefas Est" ("They can kill you, but the legalities of eating you are quite a bit dicier").

We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?

Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish

Take ownership of every decision you make because you will be hold responsible for the film, whether good or bad.

How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.

Hurling looks a bit like a cross between lacrosse and second degree murder.

Everybody knows pretty much everything about me. I emptied all the skeletons out of my closet a long time ago.

Being bipolar and an addict and an alcoholic I have to keep myself very busy. I don't sleep. I am lucky if I get three hours of sleep a night, and so I get up, and my head is full of slamming doors.

What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.

The entrance into Jerusalem has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions - even parading without a permit!

This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.

Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.

To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.

I really work for racial reconciliation in many ways. And you can judge me by my writings.

I was lucky enough to have a loving present father in my family.

In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

I don't believe in a conspiracy to hide the existence of extraterrestrial life.

There's nobody between you and the print. Nobody. It's you and the subject and the final print. And if you get it published that way, you've said it.

When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.

Don't ever miss a day without improving something personally.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are.

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies.

The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

The worst type of employee you can have is one who has mentally quit and is still physically coming to work every day.