I want to establish a wide range and play all kinds of parts. It's that sort of acting career I really respect. I like to turn a sharp left from whatever I've done before because that keeps me awake. That's why I want to be an actor - I don't want to play endless variations on one character.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

On the other hand what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons you understand but the ghosts.

When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling working and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

Upon awakening in the morning I wondered if the proceedings of the night before had been a dream. It was hard to believe that I was the world's heavyweight champion.

Your enjoyment of the world is never right till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace and look upon the skies the earth and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all as if you were among the angels.

He would use amphetamines to stay awake because he would have late night maneuvers that would go way into the early morning hours and he was given pills to stay up for the long hours.

Those golden minutes before you are completely awake when your mind is just drifting you have no censorship you are ready to develop any kind of idea. That's when I come up with the best and worst ideas. That is the privilege of being a writer - that you can stay in bed for an hour in the morning and it's work time.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.