Catastrophe Quote by Herbert Gold

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

— Herbert Gold

He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.

— Herbert Gold

Sometimes he advertises himself assiduously, writing a few words and then rushing to the talk show to wave his flag.

— Herbert Gold

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories…

— Herbert Gold

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

— Herbert Gold

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

— Herbert Gold

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

— Herbert Gold

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of…

— Herbert Gold

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.

— Herbert Gold

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body…

— Herbert Gold

I always ask young writers, 'Are you certain you want to be a writer? If you're absolutely sure, then do it.' If you really…

— Herbert Gold

Isolation from power makes men look for a mob in which they can be strong.

— Herbert Gold