There's not a good poet I know who has not at the beck and call of his memory a vast quantity of poetry that composes his mental library.
I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.
I've said this before, that, when you're in school and you're the class clown, men are really good at making fun at other people and women are really good at making fun of themselves.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
It's good to raise awareness that men and boys are struggling, at least many of them are. But why say men are finished? It's too harsh, too sweeping, and it happens to not be true.
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.
Men take much more notice of older women in France, so I might move there. I think I'm a good bet.
PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
Now the relation which, in the sphere of nature, being and semblance or sensation bear to one another in this antithesis, is the same as that which in ethics exists between good and pleasure or feeling.
Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Smart people make good choices. They dig science and say 'no' to the invasion of sovereign nations for the pleasure of corporations.
