We've got to build a durable relationship of trust with voters around the things that they are most concerned about.
Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost.
Don't be fooled by your own wisdom
To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.
Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.
My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.
We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.
If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.