Quotes About Expression

It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.

Ha ha! How do you like my storm?

Peter thought that he had noticed the shine of tears in her eyes, though of course it couldn't be so, since he had never heard of cats shedding tears. It was only later he was to learn that they could both laugh and cry.

A painting is never finished. You just stop working on it." This idea will be familiar to anyone who has worked on software.

I think a society in which people can do and say what they want will also tend to be one in which the most efficient solutions win, rather than those sponsored by the most influential people.

Like painting, most software is intended for a human audience. And so hackers, like painters, must have empathy to do really great work.

Everyday words are inherently imprecise. They work well enough in everyday life that you don't notice. Words seem to work, just as Newtonian physics seems to. But you can always make them break if you push them far enough.

hackers are makers rather than scientists, the right place to look for metaphors is not in the sciences, but among other kinds of makers. What else can painting teach us about hacking?

Without a constant misuse of language there cannot be any discovery, any progress

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction; he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions but also of entire world views, he is the inventor of entire forms of life.

Sitting on my stool I thought of a bumper sticker: If Mean People Suck, Why Isn't My Dick In Your Mouth?

I was just being honest and descriptive." "No, you were being an asshole." "It's not my fault they have to always be the same thing.

Una sonrisa es uan boca triste vuelta del revés

A person's bathroom, I believe, is the only three-dimensional expression of their soul.

let me understand this musical theater nonsense—you're being gay for credit, right?

When he got a story urge, there was nothing to do but grab a pen and write. Otherwise it was too much like getting a hard-on and not jerking off.

Is not our capacity to laugh and cry the measure of our humanity?

Some people never say the words 'I love you', for like a child they're longing to be told.

Sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Some people never say the words 'I love you'. It's not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: 'I love you' But, like a child, they're longing to be told

I have my books and my poetry to protect me.

According to Laing, the apparently incomprehensible and self-contradictory language of the schizophrenic is often a gnomic expression of the twisted truth that the patient is unable to express.

But art should require no instrument but memory.