Quotes about "Retirement & Later Life"

I have almost never written about my experience as a soldier on the battlefield, because I tried, and I found that it is beyond my capacity to describe the battlefield. The battlefield consists mostly of smells, and it is very difficult to describe smells in words - very difficult indeed. ”

I've been called a traitor a few times in my life by some of my countrymen. ”

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience. ”

The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them. ”

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life. ”

I live a pretty anonymous life. ”

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. ”

The less routine the more life. ”

Say I lived until 80 and read a book a month seriously, that means I was looking at 480 books left in my life. If I had only 480 left, I wanted to stop sifting through material I didn't have confidence in and turn my attention to those that I know merited my reading. ”

We as people often subscribe to hope to feel better about our lives, to escape the harsh and sometimes cruel injustices of the world. ”