I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil; They exist and that is all.
So long as we find anything beautiful, we feel that we have not yet exhausted what [life] has to offer […] That forward-looking element is … inseparable from the judgment of beauty.
I'm a vegan, but you can be really unhealthy as a vegan, too.
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.