Herbert Gold

Author

1924-03-09

Books by Herbert Gold

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The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.
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The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.
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Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.
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Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.
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If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.
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The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.
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Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.
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The steady pressure to consume, absorb, participate, receive, by eye, ear, mouth, and mail involves a cruelty to intestines, blood pressure, and psyche unparalleled in history.
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Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.
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To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.
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