Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And w...e have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to ...us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment when word o...f the murders on Cielo Drive traveled like brushfire through the community, and in a sense this is true. The tension broke that day. The paranoia was fulfilled.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority ... don't seem to me favored by fortune but rather to be pitied for... their continuous self-torture. They add, change, remove, lay aside, take up, rephrase, show to their friends, keep for nine years and are never satisfied. And their futile reward, a word of praise from a handful of people, they win at such a cost--so many late nights, such loss of sleep, sweetest of all things, and so much sweat and anguish ... their health deteriorates, their looks are destroyed, they suffer partial or total blindness, poverty, ill-will, denial of pleasure, premature old age and early death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit... Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go bring him home to his people. Lay him in state on a sepal.... Wrap him for shroud in a petal. Embalm him with ichor of nettle. This is the word of your Queen."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Philosophy is written in this grand book--I mean the universe-- which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be u...nderstood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am very sorry to know and hear how unreverently that most precious jewel, the Word of God, is disputed, rhymed, sung and jangled... in every ale-house and tavern, contrary to the true meaning and doctrine of the same.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »