"I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of."

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Source : Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

Mickey Spillane

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #Literature Quotes

“'Broad City' [series] has a wild side, but it also has a very heartfelt side. It's very human.”
“As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.”
“We canâ€™t change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it. Thatâ€™s the potential of meditation, of mindfulness. You donâ€™t have to burn any incense, and you definitely donâ€™t have to sit on the floor. All you need to do is to take 10 mins out a day to step back; to familiarise yourself with the present moment so that you get to experience a greater sense of focus, calm and clarity in your life.”
“When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.”
“Create tools that enable people to make decisions at the same level, ideally, of fidelity that that you would make them yourself.”
“Love has no place in a lawyer's office.”
“The talent is in the choices.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Though I leave the house as little as possible, I have the impression that someone is disturbing my papers. More than once I have discovered that some pages were missing from my manuscripts. A few days afterward I would find the pages in their place again. But often I no longer recognize my manuscripts, as if I had forgotten what I had written, or as if overnight I were so changed that no longer recognized myself in the self of yesterday.”

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