Quotes About Author

Nothing expresses Kafka's innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of "writing as a form of prayer": he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life.

Asking why isn't about the survival of the fittest; it is about the soul's craving for meaning.

eroticism. Though I doubt that they ever used this word, they embodied its mystical meaning as a quality of aliveness, a pathway to freedom

Barry Johnson, an expert on leadership who is the author of Polarity Management: Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems

These developments, in conjunction with postwar economic prosperity, have contributed to a period of unmatched freedom and individualism.

It is the very absence of psychological complexity that fuels his arousal.

A knight sets out to illuminate the darkness in society, not from its leaves but from its roots. This is how justice will be realized. Find the source

It's our job to transform literature into an event. We do this with why and how. Why our character speaks and how our character speaks.

Marian found all this feminist generalisation and assertion both tedious and exhausting.

Astronomy, mixed with astrology, occupied a large number of tablets in the Babylonian libraries

In the end, it takes phenomenal neatness of housekeeping to put it through the heads of men that they are swine.

I have been told, both in approval and in accusation, that I seem to love all my characters.

the primary purpose of sermon introductions is to produce imbalance for the sake of engagement.

Sometimes a sermon idea seemed to emerge on its own, possessed of its own power, and required a developmental process more akin to pruning than putting together.

It is not enough to probe the question of what the text is saying. It is equally important to discover why it is saying what it says. The question of why is most often the context for the transition into homiletical form.

it will be faithful realism, at least. Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.

And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance.

If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you -- less'n he wants to lose it!

active phase cannot be reliably defined until 6 cm of dilation.

Perceive conflict as positive, creative, and issue driven. Don't allow personal attacks.

So little cost to comprehend that what has long been lawful, over centuries, comes forever out of Nature.

Samaranch le dio a Horst Dassler todo lo que este quiso y privatizó los Juegos.

Maybe the problem is that you are trying to understand a philosophy instead of trying to get to know a man.

There was an old pile of clothes in front of him that turned out to be a man drinking beer.