“If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.” Quote by Ben Kingsley
“It doesn't mean that I'm overly enthusiastic about much music. Except the people that really touch me. It has to touch me, it has to grab a hold of me, I'm not looking for anything in particular.” PeopleMeanEnthusiasticTouch Me Author:Cass McCombs
“I think I can recognize when a piece is at a state of completion. I always say to my wife, "Oh yeah, it's roughly finished." I've got it there. And then there's that whole other phase of moving on to properly amp up the sentences and sometimes to move stuff around as well.” ThinkingSometimesMovingWifeMy WifeCompletion Author:Geoff Dyer
“I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the deeper thing is that I just find these people so impressive and admirable.” PeopleKindStyleSatireImpressiveAdmirable Author:Geoff Dyer
“I always hope to come up with a style of writing that's appropriate to the material and I felt like this was. And then there's plenty of - I don't know if it's the right word but - lampooning, but it's always at my expense.” WritingStylePlenty Author:Geoff Dyer
“I would hope that nothing that I write would ever seem earnest because I subscribe absolutely to Franz Nietzsche's claim when he says, "Ah, earnestness, the sure sign of a slow mind." Earnest people are always a bit on the thick side in my experience.” PeopleWritingMindEarnestEarnestness Author:Geoff Dyer
“I would agree on the aging thing. Because, at a certain point, once you start noticing it, it is your subject. And I know young that people, when they get to 30, say, "Oh, I'm so old." But actually, around 50, you do become conscious of it.” PeopleConsciousAgreeAgingNoticing Author:Geoff Dyer
“It's this thing that's going on all the time - aging. Paul Auster quotes the poet George Opren on growing old: "What a strange thing to happen to a little boy." Which I think is so profound.” ThinkingBoysStrangePoetAgingProfoundGrowing OldLittle Boys Author:Geoff Dyer
“I'd have no rituals, but I'm a person of compulsive habit. That's just some awful residue of a ritual. And one of the reasons for that is my living this life, which is otherwise so free of obligations. It's not at all unusual for anybody who's independently employed to crave a way of living whereby they create the structures without which their lives would otherwise start slopping around all over the place.” ReasonHabitObligationRitualUnusual Author:Geoff Dyer
“There's always something impressive when people are giving themselves to their job absolutely. The military thing - I was conscious that their routine, their way of living is so opposite to mine. In some ways their life seemed intolerable to me. But, mine would be to them, too, because this strangely laissez-faire life of mine actually comes with its obligations as well.” PeopleGivingMilitaryConsciousObligationImpressive Author:Geoff Dyer
“All sorts of things can keep one awake. But as you get older - this is what the stroke thing really brought home to me - this thing that I never paid attention to: my brain. I've always been conscious that, of course, after a night of getting stoned, my head would feel foggy; if I got drunk the night before I'd be hungover. But that was the extent of my concern about my brain. And then with the stroke thing, it made me realize, "God! That's my main source of income." So it relates actually to your other question about growing old.” HomeNightRealizingAttentionBrainConsciousConcernDrunkAwakeGrowing Old Author:Geoff Dyer