“Wait until the evening before opening night. Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair. In my time, all the impresarios in Italy were bald at thirty.”

“How stupid it was for the king to tear out his hair in grief, as if baldness were a cure for sorrow.”

“Or… if you actually waited until you were married to lose your virginity, because you are so much a better person than the sniveling snot that we are, you were able to do that, because you were able to wait through everything, through all those feelings, all those hormones, all of that, you could wait, until that night to make love to (for the first time) to the person that you are gonna make love to for the rest of your life, because you are a gambler on a level that I have never fuckin' imagined! My hat is off to you! Wow! What courage!”

“The world’s been waiting, they’ve been
waiting for years
And they’ve just gotta hear it
The kids are waiting, they’ve been shedding tears
So open your arms and sing for us”

“Remember this your lifetime through:
Tomorrow there will be more to do.
And failure waits for all who stay
With some success made yesterday.
Tomorrow you must try once more,
And even harder than before.”

“There's nothing more prized to a man than something he had to wait for, work for, or strugle a little bit to get.”

“Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.”

“Before the first before and after the last after, there is night waiting.”

“Don’t waste time waiting for inspiration. Begin, and inspiration will find you.”

“It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.”