Sex is like money; only too much is enough.
From John Updike
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
I was raised in the Depression, when there was a great sense of dog-eat-dog and people fighting over scraps.
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit.
There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the new-wave cosmologists, something gratuitous about the universe.
It's so hard to make a good tee shot after a birdie.
If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.
The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
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