You can't do something forever.
If you can't say where you're going, you're not going to get there. And I've known all along where I'm going, and sometimes the road takes a few curves that you didn't see, but you've got to stay the path.
I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.
All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
At some point, it comes to an end regardless, however it comes, whether it is retirement or injury; at some point, it comes to an end.
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
I don't know where we're going or how we'll get there, but when we get there we'll be there - and that's something, even if it's nothing.
I very much use Bill Willingham's approach on 'Fables,' which is that rather than having an end point to a series, I have an end point for the various story lines.
In response to the question, 'How do you know when you're finished?' Pollock replied, 'How do you know when you're finished making love?
Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.
I think fashion shows are a full stop. You need a point where there's no return, and fashion shows create a 'That's it; that's the finishing line.'
Agreeable as it is to know where one is proceeding, it is far more important to know where one has arrived.
Basketball can only go for so long.
You don't know how long you can play this game, so you keep playing it until they tell you to stop.
Th' longest lane will have a turning.
We are at full stop. We think we have arrived.
