Quotes About Commitment

I'm just saying that if we stopped fighting for lost causes, where would we be?

It's not that I don't want to, I'm just busy today. Can I throw you under a truck some other time?

The problem was that Citra was very bad at doing things half-fast.

Tell them whatever you like. It doesn't matter, as long as you're there tomorrow morning.

I will not tolerate childish pastimes or vapid communications with friends. Commitment to this life means leaving behind your old life as fully as possible. When, a year from now, I choose between you, the unchosen one can return to his or her former life easily enough. But for now, consider that life a part of your past.

for the umpteenth time.

And he knows it's not just a threat-he'll do it. Today, he'll hit a grand slam if he has to.

But my pain must not prevent me from doing the right thing.

Stick with me, CyFi had said, putting his fist in the air, and as God is my witness, you will never go hungry again. Then he added, That's from Gone with the Wind.

Divorce really stinks. It's like going to the store and buying clothes, wearing them for years and years, then returning them and asking for your money back...A store won't buy back a pair of used jeans, so how come people can trade each other in, like it was nothing? If your only pair of jeans is torn, you get a needle and some thread, and you sew them up, right?

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

He asked, What makes a man a writer? Well, I said, it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

You are thirty minutes late. Yes. Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral? No. Why not, pray tell? Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.

You have my soul and I have your money

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

You gotta find what you like and let it kill you.

A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.