The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty is hard on.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Break open your heart so that I may enter it.

Has father from HeavenSent the Angel to me?

The real youis much too big to be your own.

Nobody will ever take Maurice's place, and he'll go on with us and he'll go on our music. He'll go on with us as the Bee Gees, and Maurice will always be with us.

I come to spring training and just try to do my job, try to do the best I can. That's all any player can do.

To me designing has never been a job or profession. It's a way of life, like a priest or rabbi.

You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.

I'm doing this for my family and my country.

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!