People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives |
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. |
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. |
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state |
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state |
Speech is civilization itself. The word... preserves contact / it is silence which isolates. |
The administration's highest priority over the next seven months is to ward off what now looks like a Democratic victory in the November elections. It's hard to believe his stock has fallen that low with the president. Karl got him re-elected, and Karl was not a champion of war in Iraq. |
The meeting in the open of two dogs, strangers to each other, is one of the most painful, thrilling, and pregnant of all conceivable encounters; it is surrounded by an atmosphere of the last canniness, presided over by a constraint for which I have no precise name; they simply cannot pass each other, their mutual embarrassment is frightful to behold. |
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. |
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life. |
The president is asserting an inherent constitutional authority in 'wartime' that allows him to ignore the plain meaning of the FISA law. How it is ultimately resolved will help define the limits of presidential power. |
The president is in serious political trouble. The prospects for November look dire. Right now Democrats have to be favored to regain control of the House, so under those circumstances you look to change the dynamic and one of the easiest ways of doing that is to move some people around. |
The Sorrows and Grandeur of Richard Wagner! |
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. |
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. |