As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh.
Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.
Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.
What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.