Herbert Gold famous quotes

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.
-- Herbert Gold

#Memories #Careers #Nerves

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.
-- Herbert Gold

#Hurt #Childhood #Bird

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.
-- Herbert Gold

#Art #Family Love #Community

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
-- Herbert Gold

#Elderly #Age #Different

The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.
-- Herbert Gold

#Eye #Blood #Ears

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.
-- Herbert Gold

#Strong #Men #Looks

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.
-- Herbert Gold

#Dream #Challenges #Humanity

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.
-- Herbert Gold

#Sound #Human Nature #Mankind

Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.
-- Herbert Gold

#Eye #Moon #Light

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.
-- Herbert Gold

#Together #Conformity #Rebellion

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.
-- Herbert Gold

#Flower #Honey #Bees

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.
-- Herbert Gold

#Eye #Artist #Imagination

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.
-- Herbert Gold

#Use #Paper #Crafts