"To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off."

-- Lawrence Durrell

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Sometimes the best cure for lifeâ€™s woes is a sense of humor.”
“In democratic countries, the most important private organizations are economic. Unlike secret societies, they are able to exercise their terrorism without illegality, since they do not threaten to kill their enemies, but only to starve them.”
“I don't own an ounce of the work I've ever done on 'Batman,' and I still work on 'Batman.' I love the character, I think it's a lot of fun, and it's kind of fun to be in that ballpark every once in a while, where you're seeing a different crowd.”
“But once a culture develops sufficiently to become skeptical, the idea of censorship becomes less attractive. To suppress a book or a picture or a sculpture or a play or a film is a terrible act of aggression against the artist who created it. This is a miming of capital punishment; it destroys the life that has been emanated by a life.”
“We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.”

Source : "'Family Circus' Creator Bil Keane Dies", www.foxnews.com. November 9, 2011.
“You have to buy off interest groups, compromise your ideals, and settle for half loaves...”
“The game replaces sexual enjoyment by pleasure in movement.”
“Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.”

Source : "From Satchmo To Miles". Book by Leonard Feather, p. 84, 1987.

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