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“I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.”
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“I'm Jewish... We're a very nervous group. Paranoid. Anxiety-ridden. Maybe that Hitler thing made us a little jumpy. Nothing like a Holocaust to make you mind your Ps and Qs for a couple hundred years I always say.”
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“Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.”
Source : Journal entry for 1923. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 7, 1993.
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“The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim of chessplayers the world over. Unfortunately, it must also be noted that, for today's chessmasters, the watchword is practicality.”
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“But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.”
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“Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say.”
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“Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.”
Source : A Guide to Men "Divorces" (1922)
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“What is essential is whether it is perceived and not whether it exists. To exist and yet not to be perceived is the same as not exist.”
Source : "Soul Mountain". Book by Gao Xingjian, 1990.
