The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender
The revolution you dream of is not ours. You don't want to change the world; you want to blow it up.
He who asks a question is a fool for a minute; he who does not remains a fool forever. When you realize that by changing your perspective, big things can be seen as little things, it becomes much harder to worry about anything. Commitment is an act, not a word.
Once freedom lights its beacon in man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
The fashion industry tends to attract people with serious personality defects. They just want to be rich and famous. But at some point you have to decide: Are you going to mindlessly go the easy way or are you going to go the ethical way?
I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry Kasparov.
Look eye! Always look eye!
Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.