However global I strove to become in my thinking over the past twenty years, my sons kept me rooted to an utterly pedestrian view,... intimately involved with the most inspiring and fractious passages in human development. However unconsciously by now, motherhood informs every thought I have, influencing everything I do. More than any other part of my life, being a mother taught me what it means to be human.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As I define it, rock & roll is dead. The attitude isn't dead, but the music is no longer vital. It doesn't have the same meaning. ...The attitude, though, is still very much alive--and it still informs other kinds of music.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Gauguin too has his limitations. We have only to compare him with a universal artist like Rembrandt to see how limited was the ran...ge of his intelligence. Gauguin was capable of creating universal symbols, but selectively, discreetly. Rembrandt was himself a universal spirit, and this spirit informs everything that he painted, so that a biblical legend, a carcass of an ox, a naked woman, his own self-portrait--all stand as symbols of an all-embracing sympathy. Perhaps only Shakespeare, in another art, has that kind of universal intelligence. But Gauguin, on his more limited frontage, reaches the same heights.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These volumes contain not the highest, but a very practicable wisdom, which startles and provokes, rather than informs us. Carlyle... does not oblige us to think; we have thought enough for him already, but he compels us to act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My father's ashes are not yet interred. ... strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doing... this play.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »