I was 19 when I got my first passport as an adult. I had moved from California to New York City and was living out of a suitcase, staying with... →
Timothy Hutton
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
Aldous Huxley
It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of... →
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant... →
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but... →
It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be... →
Thomas Huxley
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.