Pastoral Resources

Names are what people sometimes use to excuse their thoughts and actions towards you.

The two principles referred to are Authority and Liberty, and the names of the two schools of Socialistic thought which fully and unreservedly represent one or the other of them are, respectively, State Socialism and Anarchism.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

What's really fun is to write under different names.

I've never crashed a wedding. When I was a kid I, of course, used to crash parties. Crashing a wedding is difficult though because you have to have the suit, and you have to have information in case someone catches you. You have to know at least some names and something.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

Many Japanese painters and calligraphers would change their names intentionally to keep their relationship to the art always fresh. This way, others' expectations can be avoided.

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.

Common folk didn't have last names in the 8th and 9th centuries.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

There were also some cruel reviews by women, but the tone of the male reviewers, sometimes hysterical, was different. I have suffered, but I don't want to name names-but there have been men who have seemed to want to destroy me or my writing, men I don't even know.

I made a list of people who needed just a little bit of money. And when the list was complete, there were 42 names. The total amount of money they needed was $27. I was shocked.