Makeup is the finishing touch, the final accessory.
The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.
I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.
What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority
Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.
If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.
He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax breaks to companies like Enron. " True - although the bill allowed all companies to accelerate depreciation of copying machines. Yes, Enron benefited, but Enron also benefited from the revolution of the Earth around the sun. Hardly an argument to freeze the planet in one spot.