It's better to do it than to talk about how perfect it could be.
Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.
The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.
The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice.
The test of interesting people is that subject matter doesn't matter.
If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother not be moved to extreme action by the loss of a child or children? We are their caretakers. We love them. We nurse them when they are sick. . . But no woman should live longer than her children. It is against the law of nature. If she does, why wouldn't she wish to leap from a cliff, hang from a branch, or swallow lye?
Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer
I try to hire people who will challenge and have the humility to be challenged - people who have basically good values.
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.