Charles Portis Quotes

Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.

I just want to play baseball.

What then is the right way to live? Life should be lived as play.

If you could play, I'd play with you all night. But if I'm just playing by myself, it gets boring pretty quick.

The real joy of life is in its play. Play is anything we do for the joy and love of doing it, apart from any profit, compulsion, or sense of duty. It is the real joy of living.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

A friend of mine gave me a very good piece of advice, which is if you don't think your kids are going to want it, don't take it.

Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night.

I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

I think we should all feel lucky and blessed that people are still, in this day and age, getting in their cars with other people and driving to a location and paying money to sit in a theater and watch a play.

I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.

I envy that man who passes through life safely, to the world and fame unknown.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

The main characteristic of play - whether of child or adult - is not it content but its mode. Play is an approach to action, not a form of activity.

Because John Cassavetes was so terrific in live TV, a lot of his friends had not been able to participate in that yet and so they asked if he would gather with them at night when I was at the play and tell them what live TV was like, what you had to adjust to because it was its own medium - it had many things you had to be aware of.

With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they're really good at it.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers.

I don't know my telephone number or anything like that, but when I do have to make a call, I just pull my body over to the side and squat. I don't want to be one of those people who are on their phone all the time.

As long as I'm having fun I'm going to play.

We would all like to be able to live an uncluttered life, a simple life, a good life.

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.

I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t yet found out. I want to write things I haven’t written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life.

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

An apocryphal story - the word "apocryphal" here means "obviously untrue" - tells of two people, long ago, who were very bored, and that instead of complaining about it they sat up all night and invented the game of chess so that everyone else in the world, on evenings when there is nothing to do, can also be bored by the perplexing and tedious game they invented.