If you can't sit in a cafe quietly and be ignored, how can you observe human nature and write a story?
The relation of landlord and tenant is not an ideal one, but any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature; for life is never so low or so little as when occupied with the present.
No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.
It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such stone piles, it answered the question itself. Dumb terror had moved those stones so big
If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.
The difference between humans and other mammals is that we know how to accessorize.
They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof.