I like to think the price I paid by being open about my private life helped.
Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.
Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.
Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment
Regarding the idea of race,. . no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.
To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.
To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.
The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.
All ends are temporary and all life is born from death.
If you ask any actor "What single thing would make you really, really happy?" Among the top five things they'd say is not having to audition anymore.
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.