Quotes About Experience

Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.

As long as life has the level of being a game, you can play it.

Art comes from life, not from the studio

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.

The currency of living is how you spend the moments of your life

Life is defined more by its contrasts than its samenesses; Life is defined more by its risks than the many securities.

Life begins at forty, but so does arthritis, and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same person.

I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.

We are a landscape of all we have seen.

The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Life's a journey. It's a journey about discovering limits.

If you weren't surprised by your life you wouldn't be alive. Life is surprise.

Mistakes are the price of an interesting life.

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

One of the things that draws writers to writing is that they can get things right that they got wrong in real life by writing about them.

You know, the more you can meet people from different walks of life, the better it is for you. I think the more you can create situations and experiences that give you new perspective, the better.

I know what it takes to balance budgets. I have done it my entire life.

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

Life is a near-death experience.