Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler. ”

The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea. ”

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. ”

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ”

Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist. ”

A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted. ”

I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good whatsoever, that is almost as bad as being starry-eyed and thinking that they are all here to advance democracy. ”

I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for a novel of mine - a condition of its being optioned by a movie producer - and I turned out something pretty lackluster. So my inclination would be to stay out of the way of an experienced screenwriter. ”

If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the market sense of the word so the language to me is most intimate, most important, most sublime and most satisfying when it gets done. ”

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. ”