Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. – Herbert Gold
He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. – Herbert Gold
Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness. – Aristotle
I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because youre a Democrat. Sometimes thats good, obviously, and sometimes thats obviously bad. But in the news business, theres no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news. – J. C. Watts