I'm not going to get somewhere and say, 'OK, I'm done.' Success is never final; I'll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I'm going to the stars and then past them.
I do not want to have the feeling of writing 'for eternity', so to speak.
My thing with the Secret Six is that they never win. The odds are always against them; everyone wants them gone. So they never win. But they never give up, either.
I can't keep fighting and being the No. 1 contender for years.
For a long time, I've had a recurring dream - I dream I don't have to write any more, that I'm free. I'm not free, alas; I'm still clearing the same terrain, with the impression that it's never finished.
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.
I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every single idea, I need to prove myself. I am tired of it!
I wouldn't mind the rat race - if the rats would lose once in a while.
Let us not alter our course simply because it leads into a dark thicket of work.
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
You know those hard days you go home where you've been worked to the bone and you just want to do nothing? In fight prep, every day is that day.
We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil.
