Henry David Thoreau was an oddball job quitter and ne'er-do-well who evolved into the bearded sage of literature, natural history, and civil liberties.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.
I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said, 'Henry, have you made your peace with God?' Thoreau said, 'I didn't know we'd quarreled.'
When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!
Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.
I always thought that Grover Norquist had a - he really is a true ideologue, in every sense of the word.
I was so lucky because what I did in 'Thor' was I built the character from the ground up - the foundations of his spirit, really. He was someone who was born with an expectation that he would one day be a king, born with an entitlement.
I cannot remember when I was not fascinated by Henry Adams.
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
I'm no Thoreau.