Special Principle

Famous quotes containing the words special and/or principle:

    In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It’s the drowning out of false voices.
    Don Delillo (b. 1926)

    If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)