"If there's anything more mortifying than being famous at 14, it's being washed up right after."

-- Moon Unit Zappa

“I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it. ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.”
“Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.”
“Where once my careless childhood strayed, / A stranger yet to pain.”
“But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.”
“The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites,”

Source : Eli Siegel (1981). “Self and world: an explanation of aesthetic realism”, Definition Pr
“Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. Mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion - that is all "our" doing, "our" invention: the invention of the intellectuals. If only we would stop setting man against man - often with the best intentions - much would be gained. Nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.”
“Our century is a brutal thinker.”
“My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.”

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