If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. |
If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. |
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. |
It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. |
Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird. |
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side |
Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man. |
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. |
Making the world safe for hypocrisy. |
Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind |
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores. |
One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years |
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement |
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement |
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. |