Quotes About Experience

I myself have benefited from many mentors throughout my life.

I've lived in New York when I've had nothing, and I've lived in New York when I had money, and New York changes radically depending on how much money you have. It's the texture of life.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.

At 20 everyone has the face that God gave them, at 40 the face that life gave them, and at 60 the face they earned.

Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.

Thinking: this journey will be the axle of my life.

There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.

Life provides many lessons, so pay attention, everything you learn is valuable.

I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.

I have never played against anybody like that in my life and I was pleased to be taken off.

"Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.

Emily Dickinson

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.