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 »
One of the great natural phenomena is the way in which a tube of toothpaste suddenly empties itself when it hears that you are pla...nning a trip, so that when you come to pack it is just a twisted shell of its former self, with not even a cubic millimeter left to be squeezed out.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Next we come to the bronchial buster, or the man (it is usually a man) who, being in the throes of a terrific throat and tube trou...ble chooses that night for theater-going.... He will soon learn to pick his pauses with finesse. It does no good to cough while there is a great deal of noise going on on the stage. No one can hear. The time is just as the star is about to do a little low speaking to her dying lover or when the hero, alone in his garret, goes silently over to the fireplace and tears up the letter. There for a good rousing bark, my hearty, followed by a series of short sharp ones like those of a coxswain! If possible the appearance of apoplexy should be simulated.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 »
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 »