American public opinion is like an ocean, it cannot be stirred by a teaspoon.
It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.
Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.
Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.
But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.
You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.
All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.
Do not seek perfection in a changing world. Instead, perfect your love.
Fitzcarraldo is that metonymic character that's unwilling to give up on his dreams. Meeting Walter was the point in which all of these dreams coalesced into a very real person with a very real story.
It is always easier to deny reality than to allow our worldview to be shattered, a fact that was as true of die-hard Stalinists at the height of the purges as it is of libertarian climate change deniers today.
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.