الموسيقى بالنسبة لفرانز هي الفن الأكثر قرباً من الجمال الديونيسي الذي يقدّس النشوة. يمكن لرواية أو للوحة أن تدوّخنا ولكن بصعوبة. أما مع السمفونية التاسعة لبيتهوڤن، أو مع السوناتة المؤلفة من آلتيْ بيان...

The true agony of war isn't being wounded yourself, it's having to watch those you care about being hurt.

The human mind prefers something which it can recognize to something for which it has no name, and, whereas thousands of persons carry field glasses to bring horses, ships, or steeples close to them,...

The aware do not die; The unaware are as though dead already.

She lived in the dream world of unreality, or else she would not admit reality; he did not know. In any case, he loved her as she was. It might never be used, but it would give her pleasure to have it...

Science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no excepti...

Just be quiet and accept the praise.

I’m with you in Rocklandwhere we are great writers on the same dreadful typewriter

I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile.

Don't get stabbed. It makes everything awkward.

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

Obsessed is a word that the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

Hard-core results come from igniting the massive power of emotional commitment. Are your people committed?

A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)

Individual events. Events beyond law. Events so numerous and so uncoordinated that, flaunting their freedom from formula, they yet fabricate firm form.

Very high altitude astronomy only works by ignoring established biological science

We need to get our minds right, because right now we are behaving as if we are out of our right minds.

The worst part of writing is meeting all these great new characters and having no one to talk about (the adventures you share with) them.

Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the...

I like bread, and I like butter - but I like bread with butter best.