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“Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.”
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“The gift economy represents a shift from consumption to contribution, transaction to trust, scarcity to abundance and isolation to community.”
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“New York, which is founded on forward motion and thus loath to acknowledge its dead, merely causes them to walk, endlessly unsatisfied and unburied, to invade the precincts of supposed progress, to lay chill hands on the heedless present, which does not know how to identify the forces that tug at its rationality.”
Source : Luc Sante (2016). “Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York”, p.10, Macmillan
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“Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.”
Source : Speech Accepting the Republican Presidential Nomination, delivered 16 July 1964, San Francisco
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“There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.”
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“I knew what I didn't want, and I knew whatever it was going to be it had to be believable and it had to come from me and I had to drive it. The way I write is very honest and when I think of the music that I listened to growing up, I loved it because I believed it.”
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“We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.”
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“I want to nominate a man who's cool on the outside, but who burns for America on the inside.”
