If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.
A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he's not that successful. But I think it's because he's like the kid who wants to be a ballplayer and never goes to the ballpark or tries to hit a ball. So I'd say reading is the most important thing that I do, besides the actual writing. I'm always asking as I read, "How did the writer do this? Why do I suddenly have tears in my eyes? Why am I crying?"
When an older writer tries to tell a younger writer through a review what kind of career she should be pursuing, it tends to speak to the reviewer's anxieties rather than the book itself.
Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.
A fish does not campaign against fisheries-it only tries to slip through the mesh.
Even a documentary portrait of a person that tries to be very accurate is shaped by the filmmaker in so many ways.
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
History Coming too close Is monstrous, like a doll That is alive and bigger than the child Who tries to hold it.
More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.
The fast-food industry is in very good company with the lead industry and the tobacco industry in how it tries to mislead the public, and how aggressively it goes after anybody who criticizes its business practices.
For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.
I've always been on the side of science that tries to help man. I play an active part with the foundations I'm involved in. Science gives hope.
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
Strange things conspire when one tries to cheat fate
Instead of clearing his own heart the zealot tries to clear the world.