The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape |
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. |
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose |
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose |
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose |
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose |
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. |
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish |
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'' |
The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project. |
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. |
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head |
There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense |
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. |
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. |