Every time you open a book for the first time, there is something akin to safe-breaking about it. Yes, that's exactly it: the frantic reader is like a burglar who has spent hours digging a tunnel to enter the strongroom of a bank. He emerges face to ...
See, the institutions and specialist, experts, you see. Yes, yes, experts, indeed. See, they would have us believe that there is an order to art. An explanation. Humans are odd creatures in that way. Always searching for a formula. Yes, a formula to ...
THE UNICORN: The saintly hermit, midway through his prayers stopped suddenly, and raised his eyes to witness the unbelievable: for there before him stood the legendary creature, startling white, that had approached, soundlessly, pleading with his eye...
Here is the essence of mankind's creative genius: not the edifices of civilization nor the bang-flash weapons which can end it, but the words which fertilize new concepts like spermatoza attacking an ovum. It might be argued that the Siamese-twin inf...
The human race has the capacity to render itself extinct unless alternatives are found to the patterns of intraspecific warfare that have dominated civilized history. Ours has long been a predatory species. Living, for humans, depends upon the abilit...
...we have, each of us, a story that is uniquely ours, a narrative arc that we can walk with purpose once we figure out what it is. It's the opposite to living our lives episodically, where each day is only tangentially connected to the next, where w...
it is horrible being all alone.
Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things.
The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.
Archomai is where believing is being.
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.
The best thing about being on tour is meeting the fans.
Hearts Live By Being Wounded
Man - a being in search of meaning.
I went from being an ailing child to a public enemy.
I talk about being Australian a lot.
Being a musician is a noble profession.
I'm not averse to being in big commercial films.
To me glamour isn't about being sparkly.
Reading is an activity of civilized beings.
