Things - Quotes
Things change. And friends leave. And life doesn`t stop for anybody.
Money is like manure; it`s not worth a thing unless it`s spread around encouraging young things to grow.
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other good things in the world.
When you`re a grown-up, you take it for granted that things are going to change no matter how much you try to maintain the status quo [...]. It`s only when you`re a teenager that you talk about change constantly and believe in your heart that it never really happens.
There are lots of things in life that are like riding a bike, but writing short stories isn't one of them. You can forget how.
One of the great things about tales is how fast time may pass when not much of note is happening. Real life is never that way, and it is probably a good thing.
Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. An artist is emotional, they think, and uses only his intuition; he sees all at once and has no need of reason. A scientist is cold, they think, and uses only his reason; he argues carefully step by step, and needs no imagination. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.