The most tragic consequence of our criticism of a man is to block his way to humiliation and grace, precisely to drive him into the mechanisms of sel….
The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their eye, the person would only ….
I find personally that when I go to a place where I can't get in, I feel hostility from whatever it is, a hotel, a shop, a market, a street corner wh….
The building block of every community is family..
I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is ….
When you discard arrogance, complexity, and a few other things that get in the way, sooner or later you will discover that simple, childlike, and mys….
It's impossible to walk a block in Miami, in Los Angeles, San Antonio without running into someone who is being deeply impacted by a broken legal imm….
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block..
Music is storming, driving, relentless, devotional, slinky, subtle, heartbreakingly-beautiful sounds that, lyrically, switch from the cynical to the ….
Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind's totalization may flounder..
... I had never given much credence to the phenomenon of "writer's block". I was more inclined to think of it as "writer's impatience", and to follow….
The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of….
Characters on stage should be flat, like clothes in a fashion show: what you get should be no more than what you see. Psychological realism is repuls….
Talent can pop up anywhere in the world, it's not just one city block..
I often tell people to stop being afraid of writing bad poetry, or bad anything. I think that a lot of times, when people claim that they have writer….
Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block..
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block opposite your house..
Things like rhyming - it just wasn't falling out of my head that way. So I started to get quite freaked out that I just couldn't write anymore. And t….
The training gave me the building blocks to get through it. A production of that scale, in a theater that big, you are going to struggle to keep your….
That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it..
As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in t….