A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or ch...ange occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I felt more determined than ever to become a physician, and thus place a strong barrier between me and all ordinary marriage. I mu...st have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he... aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It's the drowning out of false voices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifyi...ng century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own... a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy. A year later there is a new political ring or a change in the paper's ownership, consequence: more confusion, more contradiction, a sudden inrush of new ideas, their tempering, their distillation, the reaction against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »