Quotes About Perspective

There is a fine line between knowing the stats your self-publishing generates and living your life around them. Some authors check their Amazon rank several times a day. That can only lead to madness and walking the streets talking to yourself.

biographical information needs to be understood within its immediate context, not through the bias of another cultural moment.

In his own day, and for over a century and a half after his death, nobody treated Shakespeare's works as autobiographical.

Shakespeare's sonnets give us no access to his personal history.

Over-identification on the part of Shakespeare's biographers had mutated into an over-identification on the part of his readers.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Originalitatea nu const? în a spune ce nu a mai spus nimeni, ci în a spune exact ceea ce gândeÈ™ti tu însuÈ›i.

Could be worse!

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

Taking a single letter from the alphaber, he said, should make life simpler. I don't see why. Take the F from life and you have lie. It's adding a letter to simple that makes it simpler. Taking a letter from hoarder makes it harder.

Let me be the first to admit that the naked truth about me is to the naked truth about Salvador Dali as an old ukulele in the attic is to a piano in a tree, and I mean a piano with breasts. Senor Dali has the jump on me from the beginning. He remembers and describes in detail what it was like in the womb. My own earliest memory is of accompanying my father to a polling booth in Columbus, Ohio, where he voted for William McKinley.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen.

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

You have made the moon, The Jester said. That is the moon.

I don't understand," said the scientist, "why you lemmings all rush down to the sea and drown yourselves." "How curious," said the lemming. "The one thing I don't understand is why you human beings don't.

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

Man has always assumed that his is the highest form of life in the universe. There is, of course, nothing at all with which to sustain this view.

I would be the last person to say that madness is not a solution.

See is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.

I trust that this collection of pieces will prove that I ave not become, at sixty six going on fifty, as one friend of mine gallantly put it, completely lugubrious.

Con una visión perfecta uno se ve inextricablemente atrapado en el mundo cotidiano, prisionero de la realidad (...) Para la persona con ojos de halcón, la vida no posee ninguno de aquellos aspectos suaves que para mí se confunde con la fantasía

Not understanding their past renders many Americans incapable of thinking effectively about our present and future.