You create what you defend against.
Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.
Long patience and application saturated with your heart's blood-you will either write or you will not-and the only way to find out whether you will or not is to try.
The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices calling in the night from far-away places where blue waters lap strange shores. He hears birds singing and crickets chirping a luring roundelay. He sees the moon, yellow ghost of a dead planet, haunting the earth.
The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night had a lure, unexplainable, yet strong, like the light which leads a moth to destruction.
I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!
Our piety must be weak and imperfect if it do not conquer our fear of death.
If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.
It's easy to say that entrepreneurs will create jobs and big companies will create unemployment, but this is simplistic. The real question is who will innovate.