Cham is the only thing to screw one up when one is down a peg.
I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.
Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.
Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.
Television is perhaps the greatest medium ever discovered to teach and educate and even to entertain. But the filth, the rot, the violence, and the profanity that spew from television screens into our homes is deplorable. It is a sad commentary on our society. The fact that a television set is on six or seven hours every day in most of the homes of America says something of tremendous importance.
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
We live in age of prudence. The leaders of the people now generally follow.
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.