"Nothing is finer for the purposes of great productions than a very gradual ripening of the intellectual powers."

-- John Keats

#Intellectual Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Ripening Quotes

“I've always thought that a name says a lot about a person. So naturally, being named Howard, I always wanted to crawl into a hole.”
“I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.”
“All grandeur, all power, and all subordination to authority rests on the executioner: he is the horror and the bond of human association. Remove this incomprehensible agent from the world and at that very moment order gives way to chaos, thrones topple and society disappears.”
“I'm not dead and I don't have blue hair but some people say there are similarities. It is usually intolerable to watch myself onscreen but this time it's fine. I think it's beautiful and a real work of art.”
“Blankly expressing oneself can be stronger than words.”
“It took me awhile to not be ashamed to be a poet in the business environment, and to be a business person in the poet environment.”
“If you're extremely, painfully frightened of age, it shows.”
“I love New York. I love to come here, to play here, the tradition here. I'll never forget my first home run here was over Mickey Mantle's head.”

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