"Just as in the second part of a verse bad poets seek a thought to fit their rhyme, so in the second half of their lives people tend to become more anxious about finding actions, positions, relationshi..."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
- W. Somerset Maugham
"Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"My first memory is of light -- the brightness of light -- light all around."
- Georgia O'Keeffe
"A nation lives by its myths and heroes. Many societies have survived defeat and invasion, even political and economic collapse. None has survived the corruption of its picture of itself. High and popu..."
- E. Christian Kopff
"All the media of modern consciousness—from the printing press to radio and the movies—were used just as readily by authoritarian reactionaries, and then by modern totalitarians, to reduce liberty and ..."
- Adam Gopnik