Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only objective is... to make a hole in one with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is great fear expressed on all sides lest this war shall be made a war for the negro. I am willing that it shall be. It is a... war to found an empire on the negro in slavery, and shame on us if we do not make it a war to establish the negro in freedom--against whom the whole nation, North and South, East and West, in one mighty conspiracy, has combined from the beginning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel the carousel starting slowly And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,... Photographs of friends, the window and the trees Merging in one neutral band that surrounds Me on all sides, everywhere I look.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinaesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, cons...umer goods, status--all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a novelist, I cannot occupy myself with "characters," or at any rate central ones, who lack panache, in one or another sense, w...ho would be incapable of a major action or a major passion, or who have not a touch of the ambiguity, the ultimate unaccountability, the enlarging mistiness of persons "in history." History, as more austerely I now know it, is not romantic. But I am.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The se...nsation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can ...be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People believe a man is in distress because his loved one dies in one day. But his real pain is less futile: it is that he finds o...ut that sadness too does not last. Even pain has no meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most men are like me. They cannot live in a universe where the most bizarre thought can in one second enter into the realm of real...ity--where, most often, it does enter, like a knife in a heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »