To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.
Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.
Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature