Quote for Today: Saul Bellow
I wonder whether there will ever be enough tranquility under modern circumstances to allow our contemporary Wordsworth to recollect anything. I feel that art has something to do with the …
Quote for Today: James Gleick
In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes. But chaos meant that such …
Quote for Today: Tom Robbins
Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn’t understand stability. He’s confused it with rigidity. Our political and economic and social leaders drool about stability constantly. It’s their favorite …
Quote for Today: Glennon Doyle
I understand now that no one else in the world knows what I should do. The experts don’t know, the ministers, the therapists, the magazines, the authors, my parents, my …
Quote for Today: Nandita Basu
I can’t help it, it’s what I feel. And I can’t change it, nor can I explain it. I was just naïve enough to believe that the people closest …
Quote for Today: Robert M. La Follette
The individual is fast disappearing as a business factor and in his stead is this new device, the modern corporation . . . The influence of this change upon character …
Quote for Today: Carl R. Rogers
Watching my clients, I have come to a much better understanding of creative people. El Greco, for example, must have realized as he looked at some of his early work, …
Quote for Today: George Saunders
Who am I? Everybody. As Whitman said: “I am large, I contain multitudes.” Individuals within that multitude are always flickering on and off within me, stepping forward, then receding. And …
Quote for Today: Milan Kundera
The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the “only real subject,” the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man …
Quote for Today: André Gide
Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they live in a state of psychological distortion. It is his own …