Homo sapiens are the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Topics: Authority Quotes, Inventions Quotes, Passion Quotes

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying...

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying...

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

It is not her body that he wants but it is only through her body...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in...

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in...

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as...

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no...

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority,...

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to...

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.