Men Would Rather Be Starving And Free

No Writer, I Believe, Should Attempt A Novel Before He Is Thirty, And Not Then Unless He Has Been Hopelessly And Helplessly Involved In Life. For The Writer Who Goes Out To Find Material For A Novel, As A Fishermen Goes Out To Sea To Fish, Will Certainly Not Write A Good Novel. Life Has To Be Lived Thoughtlessly, Unconsciously, At Full Tilt And For No Purpose Except Its Own Sake Before It Becomes, Eventually, Good Material For A Novel.

There Will Be No Real Content Among American Women Unless They Are Made And Kept More Ignorant Or Unless They Are Given Equal Opportunity With Men To Use What They Have Been Taught. And American Men Will Not Be Really Happy Until Their Women Are.

Prejudice ... Is A Subjective Emotion Which Expresses Itself Upon Others Only Because Of An Inner Necessity For Release. The Object Is Irrelevant And Opportune. The Person Who Feels Prejudice Is The Victim Of Himself And His Own Unhappiness And Dissatisfaction. Life Is Not What He Wants It To Be And It Has Not Been What He Wishes It Had Been.

No One Really Understood Music Unless He Was A Scientist, Her Father Had Declared, And Not Just A Scientist, Either, Oh, No, Only The Real Ones, The Theoreticians, Whose Language Was Mathematics. She Had Not Understood Mathematics Until He Had Explained To Her That It Was The Symbolic Language Of Relationships. "and Relationships," He Had Told Her, "contained The Essential Meaning Of Life."

To Know What One Can Have And To Do With It, Being Prepared For No More, Is The Basis Of Equilibrium.