You don't want to cry over yourself, you don't want to have compassion about yourself. It's not the right place.
Time is a river sweeping away all that is born towards the darkest shore.
Writers perform an extremely important role: they make others dream, those who are unable to dream for themselves. And everyone needs to dream. Could there be any more important job in life than that?
If Wells recognized any merit in [Henry] James, it was his undeniable talent for using very long sentences in order to say nothing at all. p. 516
I'm convinced the true history of our time isn't what we read in newspapers or books. . . True history is almost invisible. It flows like an underground spring. It takes place in the shadows, and in silence, George. And only a chosen few know what that history is.
. . . there are so many books left to read. For that reason alone it is worth going on living. Books make me happy, the help me escape from reality.
The most terrifying thing is sometimes not what we see, but rather what we are forced to imagine.
Altering the Constitution has become the daily business of the Federal Government which the document is supposed to guide and limit. Both Congress and the judiciary assume, and exercise, countless powers they aren't entitled to.
A grandparent will help you with your buttons, your zippers, and your shoelaces and not be in any hurry for you to grow up.
Lasker thought that his rationalism rendered him immune from the surprises of chess theory.
When you collaborate, you have to be willing to scrap a lot.