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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.
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America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
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Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity . . . any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about dong it right, or better.
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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.
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I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.
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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and earning money.
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It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values-- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.
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