It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
I never was someone who was at ease with happiness.
It’s good that you feel bad,’ she said, after some thought. Not much thought, obviously, but some. ‘If you felt nothing, it would mean there is no love, no passion. And we are nothing without passion.
Of course, they hadn’t really been happier at all. But they ’d been days, and they’d had Sarah in them, and that was near enough.
He flapped his mouth some more, and then shook himself awake, came to a decision, and starting sneaking huge, theatrical looks around the restaurant, as a way of telling all the other lunchers that I Am Now Going To Give This Man An Important Piece of Paper.
I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel – but it’s staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.
I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can’t go back. You cannot go back.
To be able to pretend to be something that I’m frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait.
Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless.
Pain is an event. It happens to you, and you deal with it in whatever way you can.
I get anxious about a lot of things, that’s the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can’t stop thinking about things all the time. And here’s the really destructive part – it’s always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.
Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them.
There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.