Why was I born with such contemporaries?
For me, this is when the act of watching transforms into the act of witnessing. To witness something implies a responsiveness, the response/ability of the viewer toward the performer. It is radically different from what we might call the 'consuming' ...
The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spiritual...
The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that would be good). Rather, his teachings and behavior reflect an alternative social vision. Jesus was not talking about how to be good and how...
I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass b...
The paradox is that some of the most artistically valuable contemporary photographs are content with being photographs, are not under the same compulsion to pass themselves off - or pimp themselves out - as art. The simple truth is that the best expo...
Why is contemporary China short of works that speak directly? Because we writers cannot speak directly, or rather we can only speak in an indirect way. Why does contemporary China lack good works that critique our current situation? Because our curre...
Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
The de-spiritualization of asceticisms is probably the event in the current intellectual history of mankind that is the most comprehensive and, because of its large scale, the hardest to perceive, yet at once the most palpable and atmospherically pow...
I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
Philip Larkin has a tough honesty and sense of humor that I find irresistible, as a contemporary poet.
I write nothing but contemporary romances.
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.
Much of contemporary science is really the length and shadow of the technology we apply.
I love black-and-white movies that are about contemporary subjects.
I love contemporary culture. Even the stuff I don't like.
I read very little contemporary anything.
There are elements to the 19th century which just don't work for contemporary audiences.
