Lezama Quotes

#1. If you must go nowhere, step out.

Jose Lezama Lima

#2. The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.

Jose Lezama Lima

#3. I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

Drew Barrymore

#4. The basic principle, rarely violated, is that what conflicts with the requirements of power and privilege does not exist.

Noam Chomsky

#5. Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.

Jose Lezama Lima

#6. Who owns the NY Post? 20th Century Fox. Talk about vertical integration.

Joe Pantoliano

#7. The violet sea longs for the birth of gods,
for to be born here is an unspeakable feast,
a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.

Jose Lezama Lima

#8. Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In the middle of the day, distractions are unavoidable. I wonder if anything worthwhile has ever been written in the afternoon.

Scott Adams

#9. The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.

Jose Lezama Lima

#10. I can die now. I've lived twice.

Edith Piaf

#11. Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege.

Richard Hofstadter

#12. We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

Jane Fonda

#13. Only begin, and you will become eloquent of yourself.

Ovid