Butterflies In My Stomach quotes

The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness.

I admire anyone who isn't afraid to take risks and try out things that aren't usually looked at as "normal."

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. A society which gives unlimited freedom to the individual, more often than not attains a disconcerting sameness.

My wife tells me one day, 'I think you love baseball more than me.' I say, 'Well, I guess that's true, but hey, I love you more than football and hockey.'

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I'm just the same age I've always been.

She tended to be impatient with that sort of intellectual who, for all his brilliance, has never been able to arrive at the simple conclusion that to be reasonably happy you have to be reasonably good.

A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.