There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I do...n't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Maybe they never existed, but if there ever were the People, that's the commodity the Declaration was talking about, and Mr. Lincoln.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging t...he listener to say--and to feel--"Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disap...peared from the face of the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A book is like a man--clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page li...ke a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahe...ad of his accomplishments.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, hel...p, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »