L.A. Paul Quotes

I get bored very easily. I find most movies boring. I go to movies and ask, "How do they stay awake making this?"

That's just my disposition - to create a situation where you have to come up with something.

You can't take contradiction away. Part of the fun of it is that the contradiction never really quite goes away.

All the animals come out at night.

I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; Eugene Levy.

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.

And you read your emily dickinson, And I my robert frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers That measure what weve lost.

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

So I'll continue to continue to pretend my life will never end, and flowers never bend with the rainfall.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me

I like them all. They're all pictures of me when I wrote them. I have no favorite songs.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been

Successful hedge funds will be entrepreneurial; it is the essence of the craft.

The bottom line is that the euro is a failed experiment.

If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.

I recognize no empire of this present age.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

Ultimately we're all responsible for putting our belief into action.

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

Marx, if he had come back alive would have said Mao's his boy.

It's not fashionable but I like to spit out of the window of a moving train.

travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.

Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.

One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

The Colombians are good-tempered people. They are used to waiting for buses that are late, used to riding buses and trains that do not arrive.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.

I believe I have a sunny disposition, and am not naturally a grouch. It takes a lot of optimism, after all, to be a traveler.

There are two worlds: the world of the tourist and the world of everyone else. Often they're side by side. But the tourist doesn't actually see how people live.

There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.

All politicians, even the most idealistic ones, are looking for money, sucking up to rich people.

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

Every country has the writers she requires and deserves, which is why Nicaragua, in two hundred years of literacy, has produced one writer-a mediocre poet.

I sought trains; I found passengers.

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

Fiction writing, and the reading of it, and book buying, have always been the activities of a tiny minority of people, even in the most-literate societies.

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

Indian enterprises seemed to work so well they produced disasters; success made them burst at the seams and the disruption of unprecedented orders led to shortages and finally failure.

A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

I think I understand passion. Love is something else.

Frankly, I didn't know how I would react to Apple's over-hyped MP3 player until I used one. Now I would have a hard time parting with it: Consider me converted.

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.

And in most highly academic environments in the United States, no one fails anything.

The cold war is over; Japan won.

Love is acting stupid together.

I do the work with friends who are musicians as well. I'm working on a piece of music and I have an idea of who I want on the vocals, but I don't really have a list.