Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.

Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and filial duty which was to study, pass exams, use those qualifications to find a job, and then put together a way of life unthreateningly fuller than that of our parents, who would approve, while privately comparing it to their own earlier lives, which had been simpler, and therefore superior.

Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain. If it didn't matter, it wouldn't matter.

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.