“A tinfoil wrapper doesn’t make a bum cigar taste any better.”
Featherisms (2008)
Source: Altered Carbon (2002), Chapter 21 (p. 276)
“A tinfoil wrapper doesn’t make a bum cigar taste any better.”
Featherisms (2008)
“You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.”
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 27
“The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary.”
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 21
Context: The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.
Source: Epigrams, p. 361
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 35
Billen, Andrew. "I Made More Money As A Stripper..." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article445303.ece?token=null&offset=12&page=2, (2004-06-15)
On fame.
“A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly.”
“What I mean by an educated taste is someone who has the same tastes that I have.”
Source: Computer-Aided Design: A Statement of Objectives (1960), p. 2.