Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
Author: John Updike
We are most alive when we're in love.
We are most alive when we're in love.
A leader is one who out of madness or goodness volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
A leader is one who out of madness or goodness volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home wondering why the hell you went.
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home wondering why the hell you went.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy rather which we have only to be still to experience.
Existence itself does not feel horrible it feels like an ecstasy rather which we have only to be still to experience.
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools equipped with tortures called an education.
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools equipped with tortures called an education.
Dreams come true without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them.
Dreams come true without that possibility nature would not incite us to have them.
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know or to admit the change and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
Customs and convictions change respectable people are the last to know or to admit the change and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
Writers may be disreputable incorrigible early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.
Writers may be disreputable incorrigible early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.