A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. |
A Man In Full |
At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan. |
Car racing is purely American. |
Ed Doctorow is a great guy, a wonderful writer, great company - he's just being fashionable, that's all. In this country, there's nothing daring about going against the government. |
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see painting. |
He is politically a real maverick. It's very idiosyncratic, and I mean that in a good way. |
His hair has the long jesuschrist look. He is wearing the costume clothes. But most of all, he now has a very tolerant and therefore withering attitude toward all those who are still struggling in the old activist political ways . . . while he, with the help of psychedelic chemicals, is exploring the infinite regions of human consciousness. |
I Am Charlotte Simmons |
I think it's the only completely American sport that there is. Most of the team sports are a variation on the old medieval tournaments, but stock car racing is so American. It's astounding to me how many people are interested in stock car racing. |
If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know. |
In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death. |
In the northeast nobody knew what was going on in NASCAR, |
In this country, there's nothing daring about going against the government. |
Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you? |