G.s.gabriel Quotes

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

The dream is a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them has a chance of getting their story uploaded, being seen, being watched.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

[On the Gaussian curve, remarked to Poincaré:] Experimentalists think that it is a mathematical theorem while the mathematicians believe it to be an experimental fact.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

Hanging out with comics, all they did was make fun of me.

At length their long kiss severed, with sweet smart:And as the last slow sudden drops are shedFrom sparkling eaves when all the storm has fled,So singly flagged the pulses of each heart.

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

This sunlight shames November where he grieves In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun The day, though bough with bough be overrun. But with a blessing every glade receives High salutation.

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die

As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

Connecting with people is not hard. I love the interaction and the feedback after shows. It does take some time, but the fans appreciate it which makes it worth it.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

You pigeon hole yourself by the title you give yourself.

My girlfriend knows that if I'm acting weird at home to go to one of my shows to see what's on my mind.

I kind of grew up in a commune, but it wasn't a hippie commune necessarily, but it was a big house with a lot of families, we all lived together and it was the 70s, whatever that means.

It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place.

Surround yourself with supportive people. All the negative people, man you have to push them aside.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .

What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.

At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

Ninety percent of metabolic oxygen comes from breathing. Ten percent comes from food.

Cease, cows, life is short.

Best advice, bro: Think big. Don't think small. If you think small, then you're going to stay small. Think (about) the broad scope.

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

I found that laughter was a form of acceptance, and I really enjoyed that and I just - I crave it.

When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.