There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.
Pursue truth and people will be true to you.
It is not enough to get things done; they must be done right.
Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.
If you value the world simply for what you can get out of it, be assured that the world will in turn estimate your value to it by what it can get out of you. . . If you pursue truth, people will be true to you.
The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.
The neccessity for making a living keeps our minds so bound down to the details of professional success that we sometimes forget there is anything except professional success to live for. The necessity of conforming our habits and standards to the habits and standards of those about us, in order that we may do efficient work, makes us forget that there is a point where conformity ceases to be a virtue.
Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
Better than anything else in our culture, it enables fathers and sons to speak on a level playing field while building up from within a personal history of shared experience - a group history - that may be tapped into at will in years to come.
Conservatives or better, pro- corporate apologists hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like " progress ," " opportunity ," and " individualism " into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right. . . This "degenerate and unlovely age," as one historian calls it, exists in the mind of Karl Rove the reputed brain of George W. Bush as the seminal age of inspiration for politics and governance of America today.
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.