At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys th...at do not turn to dross in one's hands.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religio...us matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players, and Tennessee Williams has about 5, ...and Samuel Beckett one--and maybe a clone of that one. I have 10 or so, and that's a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The people of coming days will know About the casting out of my net,... And how you have leaped times out of mind Over the little silver cords, And think that you were hard and unkind....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked... A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke When I think about myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The work is rather too light, bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long<...br />chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story; an essay on writing, a critique of Walter Scott, or a history of Buonaparte, or anything that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For this world we live in None of us is sly enough.... Never do we notice All is lie and bluff. Caesar beat the Gauls. Was there not even a cook in his army? Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not Always spoken the truth in my books? And now You treat me like a liar! I order you: Burn me! Those who lead the country into the abyss Call ruling too difficult For ordinary men. Ah, what an age it is When to speak of trees is almost a crime For it is a kind of silence about injustice!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amend...ed to be true, they lose their explanatory force.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a joyous elephant should break forth into song, his lay would probably be very much like Whitman's famous "Song of Myself." It ...would have just about as much delicacy and deftness and discrimination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mad about the boy, I know it's stupid to be mad about the boy,... I'm so ashamed of it But must admit The sleepless nights I've had about the boy. On the Silver Screen He melts my foolish heart in every single scene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »