Acquaintance lessens fame.
It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.
There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never realizing you can customize.
If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.
If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort.
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.
We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.
When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism. " People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places.
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.
The creative act is not hanging on, but yielding to a new creative movement. Awe is what moves us forward.