Quotes About Boundaries

That's kind of the weird thing about Salad Days. I had to block time off from touring and tell my management and label like no press, no nothing. Let me make an album. You guys are running me dead.

If you haven't time to respond to a tug at your pants leg, your schedule is too crowded.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!

People have to find their rhythm. Some people have need for more contact and time together and some people need more space.

You can't always be friendly. It's impossible, there isn't the time.

Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood.

If you want to produce really horrible, obnoxious kids, say yes to them all the time.

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by our time, our place, our civilization.

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative

In my opinion, the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre; they are, at the same time, poetry, criticism, narrative, drama, etc.

Painting something that defies the law of the land is good. Painting something that defies the law of the land and the law of gravity at the same time is ideal.

one keeps one's friends better when one is alone. The corollary to this is that one loses one's friends, slowly, when one sees them too often or when they visit for too long a time.

It's hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept them as individuals, it becomes difficult because they keep getting out of line and wasting your time.

It's horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door.

From time to time, it is worth wandering around the fuzzy border regions of what you do, if only to remind yourself that no human activity is an island.

So you shouldn't really flatter yourself that they want to be your buddy. They don't. Generally. They want you for some reason or other, and you just have to fend that off all the time.

My poor mother. Every time I get a job she asks, "Am I gonna have to watch you kiss someone again in this one?" and I say, "You're probably gonna have to watch me kiss someone in most of them, Mom."

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.

Keeping up with everything I do requires some sacrifices, but once and a while I need to take some time to myself.

I don't have time for friends.