Defying famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The examination system, and the fact that instruction is treated mainly as a training for a livelihood, leads the young to regard knowledge from a purely utilitarian point of view as the road to money, not as the gateway to wisdom.
Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.
I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.
Write about the truth. If you write about the truth, somebody's living that. Not just somebody, there's a lot of people.
Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I'm referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.
Most of the people you look at in the early days of Harlem - the zoot suits, the music, the style of fashion, the vibrant colors - that's all influences from the south.
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.
I don't take myself too seriously.