I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.
You can't change what you don't acknowledge.
You're only lonely if you're not there for you.
Why do so many marriages fail? Because nobody gets taught how to be married. We're not taught how to pick a mate, or why to pick a mate; we don't know how to manage our emotions once we're in a marriage; we don't know how to resolve marital conflict. Married people have never been taught why they or their spouses feel the way they do and act the way they do. Nobody has ever taught us the fundamentals.
Life is not a success only journey.
It's better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
Men fall in love with their eyes. Women fall in love with their ears.
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation.
The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.
What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rockblues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.
The National Academy of Sciences would be unable to give a unanimous decision if asked whether the sun would rise tomorrow.