If you've ever been without money, or food, something very strange happens when you get a bit of money, a kind of madness. You don...'t care. You can't remember that you had no money before, that the money will be gone. You can remember nothing but that there is the money for which you have been suffering. Now here it is. A lust takes hold of you. You see food in the windows. In imagination you eat hugely; you taste a thousand meals. You look in windows. Colors are brighter; you buy something to dress up in. An excitement takes hold of you. You know it is suicide but you can't help it. You must have food, dainty, splendid food and a bright hat so once again you feel blithe, rid of that ratty gnawing shame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in Scarsdale. I love my niece in... Scarsdale, but I won't buy tickets to see her act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,... As broad and general as the casing air. But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children . . . who nevertheless d...id not become pregnant at thirteen . . . and who did not smoke anything stronger than an occasional Camel or Lucky Strike. . . . It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by young and younger children. This occurred in the mid-seventies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fe...ar, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear ... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond k...nowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"That's where I reckon Santa Claus comes in To be our parents' pseudonymity... In Christmas giving, so they can escape The thanks and let him catch it as a scapegoat...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"It's good luck when you move in to begin With good luck with your stovepipe. Never mind,... It's not so bad in the country, settled down, When people're getting on in life. You'll like it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »