Being at one is god-like and good, but human, too human, the maniaWhich insists there is only the One, one country, one truth, and one way.
Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.
No two persons ever read the same book.
In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.
Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.
The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy