"World War III will be triggered off not by suppressed nationalists seeking political independence, as happened the first time around when the Serbs at Sarajevo shot the heir to the Austrian throne, but by some semiliterate, whacked-out "loner" who lobs a rocket into a nuclear arsenal in order to impress Brooke Shields."

-- Philip Roth

#War Quotes #Order Quotes #Political Quotes

“Comedy is taken care of by a free market.”
“Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.”
“Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that.”
“Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.”
“If itâ€™s a pure expression of yourself no matter what it is or what medium, itâ€™s going to shine. Itâ€™s going to resonate. You could look inside of yourself and you could have a canvas and you could paint a dot in it, but if that is where your creative purpose is taking you then it needs to be that dot.”
“When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“ACCOUNTABILITY, n. The mother of caution.”
“If thou canst but thither, There grows the flower of Peace, The Rose that cannot wither, Thy fortress and thy ease.”

You may also like:

Claire Bloom
Film actress
Don DeLillo
Writer
John Updike
Novelist
Joyce Carol Oates
Author
Paul Auster
Author
Saul Bellow
Writer
Thomas Pynchon
Novelist
William Faulkner
Writer
James Schamus
Screenwriter