Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

In life, as in chess, forethought wins. ”

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life. ”

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go. ”

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar. ”

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type. ”

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken. ”

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. ”

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. ”

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life. ”

I can play the character better because of the roundness of my experience - because of the things I've been through. All those method guys - like that De Niro, Stallone, and what's his name, Pacino - they're all the same. ”