I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Many people have an intense feeling about what they’re best at. Too often, they’re driven away from it by other people.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I’m a writer… I write.

I’m not a writer who teaches. I’m a teacher who writes.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

Honestly, I never really put the mic down.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I’ve always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Writing is like a ‚lust,‘ or like ‚scratching when you itch.‘ Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I, for one, must get it out.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

If you’re a surfer, you just want to surf. You don’t know if anyone’s going to see you, and you don’t really care if they see you. You just live for that feeling.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

I wanted to write.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I think if I keep working in the way that I am, from the heart and from passion and with love, well, the fruits of that will keep coming.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Music is really driving my whole life.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

Rap was my drug.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

I know I’m talented, but I wasn’t put here to sing. I was put here to be a wife and a mom and look after my family. I love what I do, but it’s not where it begins and ends.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

Football changed my life and it gave me a platform to get out my aggression and it gave me a sense of value.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.