Homo sapiens is 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 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.

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...

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

In love there are two things -- bodies and words.

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

Study until twenty five, investigate until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would...

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...

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...

In love there are two things; bodies and words

In love there are two things; bodies and words

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

If food is poetry, is not poetry also food?

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

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

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

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...