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I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that. ”
If everybody lives in the same way, there's something almost narcotizing about it, but the true misery of economic class difference is knowing that you can't have what somebody else does. ”
I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I think of an entrepreneur as someone who wants to make a lot of money. That has never been at the top of my list. ”
Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money. ”
Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns. ”
There are no categories in contemporary art. There are no rules. Artists are given the freedom to make and create whatever they please and call it whatever they please. I identify with that system, or lack of system, much more than I do the landscape of contemporary publishing. ”
I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers. ”
By providing outstanding economic leadership, this country can wage its attack successfully - and can thereby build the foundations of a peaceful world. ”
For the only way in which a durable peace can be created is by world-wide restoration of economic activity and international trade. ”
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords. ”