"I figured if I could put together being funny about stuff and actual events, maybe I could do something that wasn't being done much. Because the reporters that I met out there were funny, and they had hilarious stories that just didn't fit in the AP/UPI/New York Times foreign-correspondent style. They couldn't use the things they had. But I could."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#New York Quotes #Style Quotes #Together Quotes

“Life may be defined to be the power of self-augmentation or assimilation, not of self-nurture; for then a steam-engine over a coal-pit might be made to live.”
“Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.”
“Your problems never cease, they just change.”
“Rising from the past, my shadow Is running in silence to meet me.”
“If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it.”
“Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.”
“It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.”
“Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind.”

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