Quotes

If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Let us know what to love, and we shall know also what to reject; what to affirm, and we shall know also what to deny; but it is dangerous to begin with denial and fatal to end with it.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. So, tame responsibly.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery – celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from – it’s where you take them to.”