I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that's a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.
We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function.
There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks.
Music has got to be useful for survival, or we would have gotten rid of it years ago.
In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.
I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
I think center is a critical position.
