It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.
I like business and personal life to be distinct.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature.
When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.
Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning.
One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.
Without literature my life would be miserable.
Menoeceus is a great name. (Astrid) For an old man or a feminine hygiene product. Not for my son. And next time I get to name the kid and it won’t be something that sounds like meningitis. (Zarek) You keep that up and next time you’ll be the one birthing it, and don’t mess with me, bucko, I have connections in that department. A pregnant man is not an impossibility in my neighborhood. (Astrid)
Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.
The crown of literature is poetry.
My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene.
Irony is the hygiene of the mind.
The most powerful entities on earth are not governments but the multi-national corporations that see women as their territory, indoctrinating them with their versions of beauty, health and hygiene, medicating them and cultivating their dependency in order to medicate them some more.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and. . . often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
