I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it. – Allen Tate
Screenplays I didnt really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just determined to write the books I had to write. – Kazuo Ishiguro
You have to be vigorous. Thats the only way you are going to get it because everybody has dreams and everybody has goals, but the only people who achieve them are the ones that go after it and dont take no for an answer. – Nick Cannon
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 3 September 1855
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. – Barry Goldwater
