Have you ever turned toward an intellectual in a time of authentic anguish and encountered his light appraisal, or evasion, of you...r grief? Or turned to him in a situation of light import only to be met with a heavy, superfluous solemnity?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which not...hing can dismay nor turn aside.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life wil...l be if the answer is no.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The within, all that inner space one never sees, the brain and the heart and other caverns where thought and feeling dance their s...abbath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a go...od actor ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face o...f pain; and some of our griefs ... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeropl...anes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »