"I think the writing of literature should give pleasure. What else should it be about? It is not nuclear physics. It actually has to give pleasure or it is worth nothing."

-- Stephen Greenblatt

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Paste magazine has served as a tremendous window into culture for my house. I can think of no other publication that provides such critical yet entertaining thoughts on music, movies, books and gaming as Paste. My mailbox would be a dark place indeed without it.”
“We had been frightened of atomic weapons since 1945. In those days I became convinced and remain convinced now that, after Hitler , Truman was the greatest murderer in the world.”

Source : "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 213), 1984.
“My record, Evolution, is really about me evolving as an artist and trying a few new things. There's a song called, Road Worn, which is about spending so much time on the road and is a lot more jazzy sounding than most of my other music.”
“I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind.”
“Sighing, she gave a brief nod. â€œI was supposed to win. I was supposed to finish you off. They never counted on you winning. And then you didnâ€™t kill me. It was awful.â€ â€œYouâ€™re welcome,â€ I said, feeling fresh anger ignite. â€œIâ€™ll try not to humiliate you by letting you live next time.â€ (Max II to Max)”
“To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.”
“Alas the Church of England! What with Popery on one hand, and schismatics on the other, how has she been crucified between two thieves!”
“And why does England thus persecute the votaries of her science? Why does she depress them to the level of her hewers of wood and her drawers of water? Is it because science flatters no courtier, mingles in no political strife? ... Can we behold unmoved the science of England, the vital principle of her arts, struggling for existence, the meek and unarmed victim of political strife?”

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