Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.”
tracking with closeups (31) “Unto Us a Child”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
On market expansion
Source: E3 2006 Press Conference, YouTube http://youtube.com/watch?v=O2kt3h8b6yE
Interview in Writers at Work Third Series (1967) edited by George Plimpton
Context: One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness — the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
The Infallibility of the Church (London: John Murray, 1888; 4th ed. 1914), p. 111 https://archive.org/stream/a607385500salmuoft#page/n143/mode/2up.
Source: The Master and Margarita
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Source: Address to the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (8 July 1896) http://www.afb.org/mylife/book.asp?ch=P3Ch4, quoted in supplement to The Story of My Life
