Know Everythings
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted……
I would say invisibility would be sort of a fun power to have just to see what it was like to move through the world and not be looked at. I don’t want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man’s game. I don’t watch the movies I make, so I…
We must not let daylight in upon the magic. Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders. The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. Woman absent is woman dead. What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind. You may…
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people. Personally, I’ve found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else’s area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area. I like duos with percussionists. I…
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us – not our effects on others. No one can figure out your worth but you. You never find yourself until you face the truth. You must change in order to survive. You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong…
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,…
Professional competitions are overrated. I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades. People really do spend a lot of money on their pets – sometimes more then themselves. Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person….
In America nothing dies easier than tradition. Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have…
I think – there’s always going to be a percentage of people who maybe aren’t as good as others. To try to raise a son from inside the prison walls is a very difficult thing. But I want to say to the world my son at 16 was the one who tried the most to…
I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago. We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby. We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later…
The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand. Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile. Only on the edge of the grave can…
Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all. One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you’re not dead. Not once in six years did I make it to the office by 9 on the…
I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don’t get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists. Traveling around I don’t think people are that horrible, I think they just don’t know. I write it to get it out of me. I don’t write it…
The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president. No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies. The best thing about the future is that it comes only…
The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of…
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it…