Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. – John Burroughs
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. – John Burroughs
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. Thats Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that. – John Burroughs
A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs
Piety and corruption go together like hot dogs and mustard. They have to. No one can fulfill the demands of piety; as a daily demand, it is inhuman. So it inspires the opposite—just for the sheer health of the body, if not the soul. – Norman Mailer, “Primitive Man, Art and Science, Evil and Judgment,” The Spooky A