A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast.
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a. . . cube of crystallized thought.
This is every writer's nightmare - the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us.
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
There were reprints of American editorials. Liberals saw it as a resurgence of social protest and decried the discrimination, poverty, and hunger that had provoked it. Conservative columnists acidly pointed out that hungry people don't steal stereo systems first and called for a crackdown in law enforcement. All of the reasoned editorials sounded hollow in light of the perverse randomness of the event. It was as if only a thin wall of electric lighting protected the great cities of the world from total barbarism.
What, after all, is more real to us than the geography of our childhoods?
God is found in this Life. . . to wait for another is folly.
I sit down with a guitar player and if there's a situation I feel strongly about, or a guy that I've been thinking about or if I'm mad at a guy, it comes out.
It's necessary for you to work out a way of living that's very strong and very tight and very powerful, otherwise you will not be able to deal with the unknown.
Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action.
We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make.