Interview for Billboard Magazine, February 2011.
Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)
“Every morning I take out my bankbook, stare at it, shudder — and turn quickly to my typewriter.”
On incentive as a journalist, quoted by Rosamund Essex Church Times (December 30, 1983)
"Power and Love" (1926)
Context: p> Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.We cannot avoid
Using power,
Cannot escape the compulsion
To afflict the world,
So let us, cautious in diction
And mighty in contradiction,
Love powerfully.</p
“Now I become myself. It’s taken time, many years and places.”
“It takes a very long time to become young.”
On met très longtemps à devenir jeune.
As quoted by Jean Cocteau The Hand of a Stranger (Journal d'un Inconnu). Horizon Press. 1959 [1953]. http://books.google.com/books?id=HxBJAQAAIAAJ
1950s
Quoted in Alan Wood Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Skeptic: A Biography, Vol. 2 (1958), p. 233
1950s
“I awoke one morning and found myself famous.”
Memorandum reference to the instantaneous success of Childe Harold and quoted in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron by Thomas Moore (1830), chapter 14.
