Each moment of life is only as precious as is our ability to attend to it.
What do drunkards do? They. . . drink. . . themselves. . . to. . . death.
With Ameen Rihani the matter is diametrically opposite to Alois Musil's Arabian Desert, in purpose, in point of view and, above all, in personal psychology. . . I have considerable admiration for Mr. Rihani as a writer, an authentic poet and a philosopher.
In reading Ameen Rihani. . . I seem to have become absorbed to the point of forgetting my prejudice. . . and my envy of Mr. Rihani because he was permitted to enter many remote parts of Arabia which were barred to others.
No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.
to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
I'd always liked the idea that drama acts at its best as a kind of arena for debate, not just about the thing itself, but also producing aesthetic, stylistic, political and moral discussions. The Jungian view would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories.
When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.