If you love books enough, books will love you back.
I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.
I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.
I have always believed that I need a circumference of silence. As to what happens to when I composer, I really haven't the faintest idea.
He is a lyric poet. . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.
This has been a huge problem for a very long period of time that we have, that Mexico's economy and Mexico's socialist orientation makes it so that people want to come to the United States in such numbers. I wish that we could figure out a way to do this in a legal fashion because I believe in the Latino culture.
What we are talking about is extended world war. . . People would move on a massive scale. Hundreds of millions, probably billions of people would have to move.
The retirement financial crisis will affect far more people than baby boomers, and certainly it will affect their children. Most of the retirees and near-retirees with whom we talked, said that they were extremely reluctant to have to depend on their children financially, or to think of moving in with their children. But the mere fact that they were discussing those issues indicates that some of them have already figured out that that is what lies ahead for them.
. . . there is no point in being realistic about here and now, no use at all not any, and so it is not the nineteenth but the twentieth century, there is no realism now, life is not real it is not earnest, it is strange which is an entirely different matter.