Cat Stevens Quotes

Call me the author.

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

Everything that I write will be signed with my name.

The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.

I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

Time marks us while we are marking time.

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

Trying to catch hold of yourself is a fool's errand. There is no you, only a series of former yous, created in one instant, deleted in the next.

Tomorrow doesn't really exist.

Time is long but life is short.

I don't want to be something that just comes and goes.

A writer is what I am.

Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.

There's only one day at a time here, then it's tonight and then tomorrow will be today again.

Time is the enemy of identity

We possess nothing certainly except the past

He saw that no one owned anything really. It's all rented, or borrowed. Our possessions will outlast us, we'll desert them in the end.

Who speaks is not who writes, and who writes is not who is.

The past is our very being.

I don't know the role I'm playing. I only know it's mine, non-convertible.