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The full impact of printing did not become possible until the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States with its guarantee of freedom of the press. A guarantee of freedom of the press in print was intended to further sanctify the printed word and to provide a rigid bulwark for the shelter of vested interests.
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Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.
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It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.
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What we call the present is given shape by an accumulation of the past.
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There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.
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Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
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But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
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The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.
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Show me a golfer who doesn't have a mean streak, and I'll show you a weak competitor.
