A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear load...ed with innuendo and fraught with implications.... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although Samuel had a depraved imagination--perhaps even because of this--love, for him, was less a matter of the senses than of t...he intellect. It was, above all, admiration and appetite for beauty; he considered reproduction a flaw of love, and pregnancy a form of insanity. He wrote on one occasion: "Angels are hermaphrodite and sterile."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind.... He does not have to struggle ... with the crowded ...pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary he is almost devoid of imagination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film... studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief.... Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l'originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le sol--pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I ha...d reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No, I have no thoughts about anything, even less am I feeling rebellious. That is the punishment, Martha, and I suppose that there... comes an hour when all murderers are like me, emptied from the inside, sterile, without any possible future. That is why they are eliminated, they are no longer good for anything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altoge...ther sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere..., from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »