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FRANK's Components of Creativity
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always...
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Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. . . . The acts of people are baffling unless we realize...
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.Source: Alms for...
Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother,...
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. More about this quote...
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy. More about this quote...
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our...
To write is a humiliation.Source: The Carnal Myth, Introduction (1968).--...
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. More about this quote...
Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.Source:...
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of...
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce...
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild,...
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the...
Recognise the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the...
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about...
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively...
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or...
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be...
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser Iscariots than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the...
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