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To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ who is our life.
I think that's exactly what Silicon Valley was all about in those days. Let's do a startup in our parents' garage and try to create a business.
A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ... A great society is simply a big and complicated urban society.
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.
If you look to others you will be distracted; if you look to yourselves you will be discouraged; but if you look to Christ you'll be delighted.
In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.
Forget all you know or think you know; Abandon power and enforced decree. Inward, where the deepest rivers flow, Find the currents of eternity.
There's some people who are just very dynamic about social life, and it can be some pretty crazy stuff, but you end up meeting people you like.
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was - only is.
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.
Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it.
There are all kinds of writers and all kinds of methods, and any method that helps you to say what you want to say is the right method for you.
The blatant aggressiveness of theocracies I find distressing, because I grew up when Christians, Muslim and animists lived peacefully together.
It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of career anxiety.
It would scarcely be acceptable, for example, to ask in the course of an ordinary conversation what our society holds to be the purpose of work.
After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
Modern man no longer regards Nature as in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave toward her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant.
Wild inside; raging, writhing—yes, "writhing" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly—baa, baa, baa.
We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
If you have information you've got the world by the balls. But we have to convert information into knowledge in order to make it humanly useful.
I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.
I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.
You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.
Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.
I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media is suffering.
If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.
For me, the short story is the depth of a novel, the breadth of a poem, and, as you come to the last few paragraphs, the experience of surprise.
There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off.
Being in a marriage and having children is the greatest pleasure, but it is certainly not the easiest pleasure. It is not like eating ice cream.
I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing what a body will do.
There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
Sometimes when I wake up, I forget that she's gone and then I remember and my heart drops like it does when you miss a step or trip over a kerb.
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
She wouldn't climb out of the bed for her sister, but she had climbed into a crater. She wouldn't cross a room, but she had crossed a continent.
But there had to be a quota. An upper limit to the number of miracles one is privileged to in a lifetime. How many times can a beloved reappear?
You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
We make our discoveries through our mistakes: we watch one another's success: and where there is freedom to experiment there is hope to improve.
I place my hands over her ears and tip her head back, and kiss her, and try to put my heart into hers, for safekeeping, in case I lose it again.
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
The greatest judgment which God himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is to leave him in the hand of his own boasted 'free'-will.
Know how to choose well. Most of life depends thereon. It needs good taste and correct judgment, for which neither intellect nor study suffices.