Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.
The Plastic People of the Universe played 'Venus in Furs' from Velvet Underground, and I knew everything was basically okay.
People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark.
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
Belinsky: 'Who is this Moloch that eats his children?'Herzen: 'It's the Ginger Cat.
I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.
Uncertainty is the normal state.
Septimus: There is nothing more to be said about sexual congress.
In an age when the difference between prince and peasant was thought to be in the stars, Mr Tzara, art was naturally an affirmation for the one and a consolation to the other; but we live in an age wh...
Had to miss it PLAYER (bursts
War is capitalism with the gloves off
There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.
Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.
It’s to do with knowing and being known. I remember how it stopped seeming odd that in biblical Greek knowing was used for making love. Whosit knew so-and-so. Carnal knowledge. It’s what lovers trust...
I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all educ...
It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did so on the ground that they had been endowed...
Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.
I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, i...
I fell in love with literature and stayed lovesick all my life.
HENRY: You don’t get visited by happiness like being lucky with the weather. The weather is the weather.DEBBIE: And happiness?HENRY: Happiness is . . . equilibrium. Shift your weight.