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If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.
I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
I was obsessed with fashion when I was young. I thought fashion meant fashion design, and I thought I wanted to be a designer at some point.
I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.
True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
Our greatest illusion is disillusion. We imagine that we are disillusioned with life, when the truth is that we have not even begun to live.
The corporations have all their marketing tools, but it's so much better to go in and find out what's going on and what people are thinking.
If you are foolish enough to defend your own home against burglary, expect to be arrested, fingerprinted, DNA-swabbed, and probably charged.
In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.
The things that come to us easily, our propensities, are carried on a deep subconscious level into our next life. There are no coincidences.
Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?
The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.
We are using the same water that the dinosaurs drank, and this same water has to make ice creams in Pasadena and the morning frost in Paris.
I've always been interested in intellectual history and in psychology, and anxiety is obviously something that's been a big part of my life.
Like sand on the beach, the brain bears the footprints of the decisions we have made, the skills we have learned, the actions we have taken.
Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.
And Louis Freeh was a completely dysfunctional FBI Director, who was actually waging his own private war against the Clinton Administration.
I love convincing a reader that an unusual or seemingly ordinary subject is worth his or her time - it's part of the fun for me as a writer.
You can find out anything you want about a car now, and especially every bit of information about the price, without relying on the dealers.
With a global society hungry for luxury, distribution and supply chains are now as important for executives as a hands-on feel for products.
I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.
Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their game.
I'm an enemy of what I call 'computer theology.' There's a class conflict out there. There's a techno-elite that lives in a different world.
Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.
You don't suppose that the photo ops and the military convoys arriving at the same time were a coincidence, do you, Wolf ... Situation Room.
Love shouldn't hurt. Love is to help the other grow with the right words instead of using derogatory remarks. Everyone has their good points
I moved to New York City from Texas in 2007, where I lived for two years. Before that, I lived in South Carolina for the majority of my life.
I don't have any magic way for studying. Mostly just talking hands/strategy with people whose opinion I respect. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.
One aspect of politics too little acknowledged is that besides being jolly serious and all that, it is also a hugely enjoyable game for boys.
Science fiction is exciting because it promises to show the world and the universe from perspectives radically unlike what we've seen before.
[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.
Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.
Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.
Perhaps if there were less certitude about our climate future, more Americans would be interested in having a reasoned conversation about it.
We've always been fascinated with movie stars and singers, but the fascination with people who really have nothing to offer is something new.
I always think if I'd had kids that I'd manage them like I do my dog Margaret: camps, playdates, naps, and lots of snacks. They'd all be fat.
Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.
Does the terror threat we're facing grow out of a perversion of Islam, or does it represent and extreme, but durable, strain of the religion.
Experts now talk about the ‘nutrition transition’, in which populations in developing countries move straight from malnourishment to obesity.
The creed of the Inland Revenue is simple: "If we can bring one little smile to one little face today, then somebody's slipped up somewhere."
I'm kind of odd; I'm a technophobe who isn't a technophobe. I'm afraid of new things, but eventually I love them. That happened with Twitter.