Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.
I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.
Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.
I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work – that’s what makes you unique.
One sits down first; one thinks afterwards.
Find first, seek later.
The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo.
This is my first week as an American citizen. It’s amazing. Now I can vote in the general election – and for American Idol.
Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.
There’s a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it’s being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
Well, first of all I’ll say that I come alive best in theater.
My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.
There is this quality, in things, of the right way seeming wrong at first.
I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you’re first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.
The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.
Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup.
It is difficult to set bounds to the price unless you first set bounds to the wish.
Apollo, sacred guard of earth’s true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word...