The Face in the Frost
Source: The structure of social action (1937), p. 17
Paris Review Interview (1986)
Context: You ask if I thought my fiction had changed anything in the culture and the answer is no. Sure, there's been some scandal, but people are scandalized all the time; it's a way of life for them. It doesn't mean a thing. If you ask if I want my fiction to change anything in the culture, the answer is still no. What I want is to possess my readers while they are reading my book — if I can, to possess them in ways that other writers don't. Then let them return, just as they were, to a world where everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt, and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise, to have set loose in them the consciousness that's otherwise conditioned and hemmed in by all that isn't fiction.
“The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library”
“Some things are best left a blur. Births and Visa Bills.”
Source: Shopaholic & Baby
Waste
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part VIII - Handel and Music
“One could argue that there exist certain questions that are best left unanswered.”
“Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched…”
Guynn, Jessica (September 17, 2008). " Google's Schmidt, Page and Brin hold court at Zeitgeist http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/09/googles-schmidt.html". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-01-07.
“Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful”
Source: Elric of Melniboné
