Iff replied that the Plentimaw Fishes were what he called 'hunger artists' — 'Because when they are hungry they swallow stories through every mouth, and in their innards miracles occur; a little bit of one story joins on to an idea from another, an...
I miss the honor of serving as a parish pastor. There is nothing quite like it. The most challenging aspect of the job is that you just can't please everybody all the time, no matter how hard you try. But the greatest honor of the office, from my per...
... we have created a man with not one brain but two. ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain. ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal -- the only peripheral terminal -- for the new computer. ... And there...
No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the root cause of all the conflicts and all the miseries. Thought creates boundaries, thought creates divisions and thought cre...
Don’t live life as a spectator. Always examine life: Espouse new ideas, long for new things, constantly discovering new interests, escaping from boring routines. Engage life with enthusiasm; grasping life aggressively and squeezing from it every dr...
The new boat will find the old stones.
The town is new every day.
Old friends are always new.
Persist as resolutely as you persist in eating.
It is necessary to find one's own way in New York. New York City is not hospitable. She is very big and she has no heart. She is not charming. She is not sympathetic. She is rushed and noisy and unkempt, a hard, ambitious, irresolute place, not very ...
One war ends, another begins.
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Architecture begins where engineering ends.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.
All change begins with someone having a thought.
For avarice begins where poverty ends.
question is the beginning of thought
