“Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.”
Humor“Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.”
Age“Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little.”
Humor“People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.”
Art“Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.”
Love“Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.”
History“When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.”
Success“Human society sustains itself by transforming nature into garbage.”
Nature“The time I kill is killing me.”
Time“Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.”
Time“Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.”
Amazing“At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.”
Wisdom“Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.”
Imagination“Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.”
Happiness“Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.”
Future“As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.”
Equality“Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.”
Truth“I'm being treated like a sex object, cried the lady. No matter. I will take care of it, said Time soothingly.”
Time“Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.”
Politics“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
Courage“Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.”
Travel“Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.”
Time