What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.
I think if you ask what people really mean by happiness today, it is the experience of unlimited consumption - the kind of thing Mr. Huxley described in "Brave New World. "
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
People think that to love is simple, but that to find the right object to love - or to be loved by - is difficult.
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.
The fact that millions of people share the same vices does not make these vices virtues, the fact that they share so many errors does not make the errors to be truths, and the fact that millions of people share the same form of mental pathology does not make these people sane.
You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.
If I acknowledge my dependency, I do so because for me it is a means of signifying my demand: in the realm of love, futility is not a "weakness" or an "absurdity": it is a strong sign: the more futile, the more it signifies and the more it asserts itself as strength. )
I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.
Launching Collins in the U. S. fulfills the original vision of the 1989 union of Harper & Row and William Collins. Publishing has clarified the many benefits of working as a global company. I believe that a true 21st century publisher is a global publisher. Harper Collins is well on its way.