Quotes About Expression

Maybe some find that so, but Joseph Sobran better expresses my feelings: "It can be exalting to belong to a church that is five hundred years behind the times and sublimely indifferent to fashion; it is mortifying to belong to a church that is five minutes behind the times, huffing and puffing to catch up."1

If the redeemed sing, presumably someone must write the songs.

Lonesomeness. Morandi, Cezanne, it's all about lonesomeness. And Rothko. Especially Rothko.

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits.

I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write.

Is language all about desire? Is desire all about loss? Would we ever need to say anything if we never lost anything? Is everything we ever say just another way to express: I will lose this, I will lose all of this. I will lose you?

Sadness was the driver, the motor of his invention, the engine of his creativity.

The sneaky heftiness of the book being the aggregate cumulative effect of hundreds of thousands of individually insubstantial little markings, letters and numbers, commas and periods and colons and dashes, each symbol pressed upon the page by the printing machine with a slightly greater-than-expected force and darkness and permanence.

The great shame of your life that you can't speak his language, not really, not fluently.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

Parties somehow represent the rationing of fun, and that very concept depresses me. You're allowed to act like a tit at parties; therefore by implication, you're not allowed to act like a tit the rest of the time

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

The basic essential of a great actor is that he loves himself in acting.

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.

my lips never know my problem they just always smile

Patriotism is too deep a feeling to depict in the posing for a photograph.

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

They will always criticize you, speak badly of you, it'll be hard to meet someone who will like you as you are, so live, do what your hear tells you to do ... Life is like a play that does not allow testing. So sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely every day of your life, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

Lebe so, wie du es für richtig hältst. Und gehe, wohin dein Herz dich führt. Das Leben ist ein Theaterstück ohne vorherige Theaterproben. Darum: Singe, lache, tanze und ... liebe! Und lebe jeden einzelnen Augenblick deines Lebens... bevor der Vorhang fällt und das Theaterstück ohne Applaus zu Ende geht.

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

I will never run out of new projects. I've got them backed up in my mind, and when I feel one is complete enough, we just get the band together, call our engineer, and proceed to make some new music. I did a duet album called Deuces with artists ranging from