Daily Thoughts

December 6-10, 2010

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. ~Tennessee Williams


Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ~C. S. Lewis

I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. ~Pauline Kael

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid. ~Jules Feiffer

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. ~Arthur Miller

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