There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.
Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
My own view is that violence is a part of classical Haida literature - and of every mythology everywhere, so far as I can tell - because it's part of life itself. In the world of the hamburger stand and the supermarket, or the vegan café and the ashram, you might try to tell yourself it's possible to be nonviolent. In a hunting and gathering society, violence is more difficult to hide.
Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.
Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!
Let none think to fly the danger for soon or late love is his own avenger.
In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children. ' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.
To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.
I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
What we prefer to read is sort of like sexual preference, you like what you like. Most of the time you have no clue why.
It is the lot of man but once to die.
Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.
I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had.
I think you can find all the elements that you can find in great literature in mundane experiences.
No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.