"Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots."

-- Delmore Schwartz

#Order Quotes #Roots Quotes #Profound Quotes

“I still don't think I have a vocation - and writing is a way of avoiding one.”

Source : "'I had an inkling I might win'". Interview with Lindesay Irvine, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2008.
“When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.”
“If you want to be an actor, my advice is to learn your lines and don't bump into the other actors.”
“Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.”
“It wasnt until I was a sophomore in high school that I asked Mama if I could come into the kitchen and have her teach me how to cook something. Well, I wasnt in there five minutes before she said, OK, honey, you have to go now. I made her so nervous she was about ready to throw up. So I really didnt have an interest in being in the kitchen until after I was married, when I was 18. It didnt take me long to realize that Mama was not going to show up at my house every day and cook.”
“I used to get letters from guys in prison. Anymore now I don't even open them. They'd ask me to please sign a couple of cards for their children. Then I see them on eBay two weeks later. Or the people that write and say, "You is one of my favorite cartoonists. I would like a drawing, please." I guess they encourage inmates to write letters to celebrities. It's like a way to make money by selling autographs or something. Give me a break.”
“I abominate any organization that denies cats are people!”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “The Wanderer”, p.20, Open Road Media
“My favorite machine at the gym is the vending machine.”

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