Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
You want to cut down air pollution? Cut down the original source... Breathin'!
Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality.
We are identified and known by the sort of fruit, the quantity of fruit, and the quality of fruit borne out in our daily conversation, conduct, and character. There is no greater criterion for Christians. It is the paramount gauge of God's people.
What you can't go through on your own, God will help you fly over.
Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
In an age of sophistic over-complexity, simplicity can be useful.
Once you learn to hit, teach yourself to never miss again.
I look at you Across those fires and the dark.
Ignorance is bliss. Denial is the reaction to a painful truth.
There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
If you want to be somebody in this world, don't fear any sacrifice it will be recommended for you to be who you want
Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.
That which attracts the world must please and pander to the self-importance of man. The world itself is a vain show, and likes its own. Consequently there is nothing which so carries the mass of men along with it as that which flatters the vanity of ...
Roses are wilting, Violets are dead, The sugar bowl is empty,and so is your head.
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
How do you go to your own house when something has gone bad on the inside, when it doesn't seem like your place to live anymore, when you almost cannot recall living there although it was the place you mostly ate and slept for all your grown-up life?...
Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.
The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I'll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth's curvature allows. It's a blessing, that curvature, that hidden hemisphere-if we could take it all in at one, why move?
