Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.
Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted devoting hours and hours and hours to it.
I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband experience being a father experience maybe hopefully someday being a grandfather and all those things. I want that experience. When I die I want to be exhausted.
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
Few people even scratch the surface much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it I want to be certain that when I arrive at death I'm totally exhausted.