Was it that she understood that we resented having others think that we were all entertainers and natural singers? But now after the mutual laughter something disturbed me: Shouldn't there be some way...
New York!" he said. "That's not a place, it's a dream.
The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
The world is a possibility if only you'll discover it.
Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.
You're very insistent, but I'm very busy.
When one is invisible he finds such problems as good and evil, honesty and dishonesty, of such shifting shapes that he confuses one with the other, depending upon who happens to be looking through him...
To hell with being ashamed of what you liked.
Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, the famous Burma Surgeon.
Maybe it's just that some of us have had certain facts and truths slapped up against our heads so hard and so often that we have to see them and pay our respects to their reality.
It goes a long way back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were o...
So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is,...
Times are grave and you seem very indignant.
The truth is the light and the light is the truth.
I was no longer afraid. Not of important men, not of trustees and such; for knowing now that there was nothing which I could expect from them, there was no reason to be afraid.
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads y...