I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.
I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
To read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another
Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.
Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.
I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
Once there were two brothers. One ran away to sea; the other was elected vice president of the United States. And nothing was heard of either of them again.
None of us are too sensitive to live our purpose.
Also, I'm sleeping with your mom. Just thought you should know.