“There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“There is a reason, after all, that some people wish to colonize the moon, and others dance before it as before an ancient friend.”
― No Name in the Street
― No Name in the Street
“In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again,”
― Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
― Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“I used to think I wrote because there was something I wanted to say. Then I thought, 'I will continue to write because I have not yet said what I wanted to say'; but I know now I continue to write because I have not yet heard what I have been listening to.”
― Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
― Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
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