books

"The translator translates a book for the ones who are not familiar with its language of origin. If someone can read it in the language of origin, he will not need to read its translation. So, when you…"

"L.A. is a nightmare place, man. You'll always meet this one guy out in L.A, you always – this real smarmy guy. He always says this: "Yeah, I love calling back east January 1. 'What are all you doin'? …"

"The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to "End…"

"One of the things about Adrianne I was always grateful for was that she always wanted to learn and experience more things in the world. She was very thoughtful and interested. She loved literature and…"

"his work... is... intended to arouse and stimulate the reader's own thought, rather than to inculcate doctrine: this result is often best achieved by the assertion and contradiction which excite the r…"

"When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page."

"Notices of the AMS, April 2006, Volume 53, Number 4 · Kurt Gödel Centenary Issue"

"If I go into a season and I say, ‘For fuck’s sake, if we don’t win anything, they will all leave,’ I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the mana…"

"One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind."

"I was looking for books and stories and novels that addressed our history in the Americas. And there weren’t that many for young readers. I saw that they had a lot of books about the Holocaust and abo…"

"I guess I should have written two books of my life, one for the adults and another for the kids."

"Many counterrevolutionary books have been written in favor of the Revolution. But Burke has written a revolutionary book against the Revolution."

"Tellingly, they do not mention the outcome of the debate, but reiterate the ludicrous demand they made while attending the debate as BMAC advocates, viz. that they be considered “independent historian…"

"We live, and move, and have our being in a consumer cosmos. The global economy and interconnection of markets and resources means every time we eat a meal, listen to music, put on clothing, or read a …"

"In strategy you must know the Ways of other schools, so I have written about various other traditions of strategy in this the Wind Book."

"“For touching a people who want to forget ugly problems, no politician equals the one who has already forgotten them himself."

"I'd always prided myself on how unlike my books were from each other in settings and subject matter. But not until late in my career did I realize that a single thread ran through them, that I'd used …"

"Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives …"

"Joyce Carol Oates Bookworm Interviews with Michael Silverblatt"

"The Administration's policy on women is often hard to see because it is written in the font size of pharmaceutical ads."