I have a lot of faith and confidence in Cuban democracy.
Sometimes human nature can leave you looking just a little shamefaced.
May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.
The bone won't come to the dog. It's the dog that goes to the bone.
All men come to resemble their fathers. That isn't a tragedy. But you need a hell of a sense of humor to handle it.
Philosophy begins when you don't know where to look for an answer.
McIntosh is persuasive in his arguments that the scientific facts of evolution cannot stand alone. . . science shows that historical evolution, whatever its contingencies, is itself on a trajectory of values development. McIntosh has well-researched his sources and integrated them with seminal insight.
There is a complete difference between art and the art market. Prices are high now for the simple reason that there are people are willing to pay them. The market dominates the art world today because at the moment collectors call the shots. Like everything else that won't last forever.
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
Here was a strange but true fact: The closer you were to the market, the harder it was to perceive its folly.