We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.
A writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.
