Sometimes artists can have the same sound, but they can give you a show that makes you see it in a completely different way.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
Through fasting. . . I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of the violent and intractable. It was a trouble-saving device; they just left the man there and forgot him, and his own tormented mind did the rest.
We said we'd never tour. . . and we'll never do a tour, I don't think - or if we do it won't be longer than about two weeks.
ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (. . . ) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Once I've picked the finest men in Athens, I'll return. They'll rule fairly in this case, bound by a sworn oath to act with justice.
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth the irrational.
It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.