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

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

Where we come from in America no longer signifies. It's where we go, and what...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

In love there are two things; bodies and words

In love there are two things; bodies and words

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

The third man in the ring makes boxing possible.

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there...

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

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

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

When poets write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also...

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...

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

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...

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

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...

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.

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,...

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...

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...