Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that. ”

Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment. ”

Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future. ”

I'm a very open book as far as the way I relate to people. ”

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. ”

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide. ”

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die. ”

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you. ”

Things ain't what they used to be and never were. ”

The schools ain't what they used to be and never was. ”