The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.
Jacques BarzunGrab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way
Jacques BarzunIf civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques BarzunAn artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
Jacques BarzunThe world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect
Jacques BarzunThe nation in arms is virtually a communist state: the people must be paid wages and fed and protected and regimented behind the lines as much as on the front. Minds must be kept loyal and at the right pitch of hate, so that successive drafts of fighters are accepted without murmurings. Letters and newspapers must be censored while the propaganda mill grinds on. As for decisions of strategy and overall command, they must please many masters: dissenters in the cabinet, the heads of the allied states and public opinion. Hence failures must be disguised or concealed.
Jacques Barzun