Saul Quotes
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
The secret motive of the absent-minded is to be innocent while guilty. Absent-mindedness is spurious innocence.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
One of the most anxiety-inducing side effects of the information era is the feeling that you have to know it all.
In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.
The cry of the Have-Nots has never been "give us our hearts," but always "get off our backs"; they ask not for love but for breathing space.
Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?
The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.
The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.
Liberals like people with their heads, radicals like people with both their heads and their hearts.
I live by two credos: If you don't ask, you don't get. And most things don't work.
The recession is over." This phrase has been used twice a year since 1973 by government leaders throughout the West. Its meaning is unclear. See: Depression.
We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.
When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle atop some crumbling building, spring to life a resuscitated angel.
In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such.
Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
the greatest Americans have not been born yet they are waiting patiently for the past to die
Music has always pushed ahead social movements and can do much more than just dumb down a populace.
America's corporations are a spiritual slum, and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society.
California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.
