It's simpler to believe in a miracle.
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.
I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.
I find it very difficult to talk here now because I'm watching the sea all the time. The sea always makes me watch it all the time. I've spent hours and hours not just on the sea but just watching wav...
It wasn't until I was 37 that I grasped the great truth that you've got to write your own books and nobody else's, and then everything followed from there.
Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.
I've always been puzzled, and am still at this moment in a state of confusion, between the imaginative world and the real world. It is perfectly true to say that I have at some times in my life found...
I tell you, money can't build your spire for you. Build it of gold and it would simply sink deeper.
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer.
Are we savages or what?
Sleep is where we touch what is better left unexamined. There, the whole of life is bundled up, dwindled. There the carefully hoarded and enjoyed personality, our only treasure and at the same time ou...
Worse than madness. Sanity.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015)
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet.
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
I think are foolish to pretend they are equal to men,they are far superior and always have been. -William Golding
As long as there's light we're brave enough
As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.
Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?