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If we practiced medicine like we practice education, wed look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.
I think 'Charming Billy' ultimately is a novel about faith and what we believe in and, above all, what we choose to believe in.
There is still nothing like equality for women in jobs, in family. There's just an awareness that inequality is not acceptable.
I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.
Information overload will lead to 'future shock syndrome' as an individual will suffer severe physical and mental disturbances.
I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.
Muslim anger has, of course, been stoked by America's war in Iraq and by Israel's brutal policies toward Palestine and Lebanon.
A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
Time ripens the substance of a life as the seasons mellow and perfect its fruits. The best apples fall latest and keep longest.
And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.
The absence of marriages will result in all kinds of financial burdens that gay people wouldn't face if they could get married.
With children who have never said a word, parents tend to assume, for better or for worse, that there isn't any language there.
My ever-present mania meant I was never phased by staying up twenty hours a day or by the different time zones. I was Superman.
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.
By the time we left college, I had become my own image: a dandelion in the flower bed of society. Kinda cute, but still a weed.
Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes
She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
But games always cover something deep and intense, else there would be no excitement in them, no pleasure, no power to stir us.
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
You can still be cool when you’re dead. In fact, it’s much easier, because you aren’t getting old and fat and losing your hair.
I think about my mother singing after lunch on a Summer afternoon, twirling in blue dress across the floor of her dressing room
I once read about a guy who lost his arms in a fire. The nurse took pity on him and gave him a hand job. I don't even get that.
Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.
Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even than what he condemns, of his own character, information and abilities.
Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you.
I've eaten sheep's eyes, the still hot meat from a zebra killed by a lion, and maggots which give you 70 calories to the ounce.
I come from a line of self-motivated, determined folk - not grand, not high society, but no-nonsense, family-minded go-getters.
I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
My favorite moments? Where it's all going swimmingly, the sun's out and I've got a fire going and a nice snake on the barbecue.
Liberals, many of them, not all of them, but many of them are obsessed with race. They see everything through a filter of race.
I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'
I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.
I grew up with a sister I was very close with and a mom who was a powerful influence on my life. I was always close with women.
No matter how horrid a person may appear on the surface, if you dig deeper, you will find some nice, unexpected little quality.
For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day.
American history and the history of baseball are bound up together: our racial politics can be described and traced through it.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
Deformity of the heart I call The worst deformity of all; For what is form, or what is face, But the soul's index, or its case?
Those graces which from their presumed facility encourage all to attempt an imitation of them, are usually the most inimitable.
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.