The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent. This proposition is by no means novel; it has long been one of the commonplaces of popular opinion.
I am a movement chauvinist.
We have a brain for one reason and one reason only - and that's to produce adaptable and complex movements.
You may reason that we have [brains] to perceive the world or to think, and that's completely wrong.
Movement is the only way you can effect the world around you. . .
There can be no evolutionary advantage to laying down memories of childhood or perceiving the color of a rose if it doesn't affect the way you're going to move later in life.
Having love is more important than having a lover
Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.
I have such a lovely life and I just never imagined that I would miscarry a baby.
A good writer does not write as people write, but as he writes.