David Milch > Quotes

“Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or fucking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you've got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back.”
― David Milch

“Announcing your plans is a good way to hear god laugh”
― David milch

“It increasingly seems that life is something that happens to you and art the opportunity to understand what’s transpired. You need only to be brave.”
― David Milch, Life's Work: A Memoir

“offer myself to Thee to build with me and do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will.”
― David Milch, Life's Work: A Memoir

“Never believe anything you think about yourself as a writer when you're not writing.”
― David Milch, Life´s Work

“Words are symbols of reality, but they are symbols that partake of the reality they represent. That paradoxical doubleness is the explanation of how writing is a reaching out to our fellow human beings but also a reaching out to a larger spirit”
― David Milch, Life´s Work

“learned late in life to obey my wife’s commands without question, but even though I learned I only do it intermittently. I live in terror of her judgments but I rarely take the next step of following her instructions. In my consciousness my wife is a brooding, metaphysical omnipresence who has saved my life.”
― David Milch, Life's Work: A Memoir