133 Quotes About Essays

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among artists, the writer, the man of words, is the person to whom we look to be able best to express his suffering.

The conflicts of life and work, like those of rest and work, would ideally be resolved in balance: enough of each. In practice, however they probably can be resolved (if that is the word) only in tension, in a principled unwillingness to let go of either or to sacrifice either to the other. But it is a necessary tension, the grief in it both inescapable and necessary.

I have managed to make the Capitalist class pay me several pounds a week for writing books against Capitalism.

Only where there is life can there be home.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it.

In this essay, John Zwerenz gives amazingly objective political insights into what makes our current President tick.

The task of writing is the quintessential spiritual act because it tests a person’s commitment to living a meaningful life. Writing this scroll is a self-prescribed, shamanistic act of spiritual faith.