I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.
A lot of the things that will really improve the world fortunately aren't dependent on Washington doing something different.
It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
There are writers who are great visionaries, who can depict huge movements - things like that. They're the great writers. I'm just the other kind.
I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.
I think the most rewarding thing is going over and being deployed and having done meaningful things.
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
I can't deprive myself of things because then I obsess about it and end up eating.
When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can.
An M.P. once suggested I be put in the Tower of London for saying derogatory things about the royals. There's no First Amendment in my country.
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
Just as Divinity descends in a certain manner, to the extent that one communicates with Nature, so one ascends to Divinity through Nature, just as by means of a life resplendent in natural things one rises to the life that presides over them.
You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
I don't do the vintage thing so much, just because it's not me. There are some vintage designers I'll buy things from, but mostly not.
There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.
A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.
All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
