Most of my friends like words too well. They set them under the blinding light of the poem and try to extract every possible connotation from each of them, every temporary pun, every direct or indirect connection - as if a word could become an object...
There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. If, for the sake of argument, 1 million are violent, that's a mere .000625 percent of them. I wonder who among you wants to be judged on such a tiny minority. Further, at 1.6 billion, if all Muslims - or ev...
Dave Lizewski: Even with my metal plates and my fucked up nerve endings, I gotta tell you, that hurt! But not half as much as the idea of leaving everything behind. Katie, my dad, Todd and Marty... and all the things I'd never do. Like learn to drive...
Macaulay Connor: [speaking of Tracy] What are her leading characteristics? C. K. Dexter Haven: She has a horror of men who wear their hats in the house. Elizabeth (Liz) Imbrie: Leading characteristics to be filled in later. Macaulay Connor: I can fil...
...After all, acknowledging unfairness then calls decent people forth to correct those injustices. And since most persons are at their core, decent folks, the need to ignore evidence of injustice is powerful: To do otherwise would force whites to eit...
The universe is a unity. Every material thing is in all things. All things come from all, and all is in all things.
Everything that is,casts a shadow
I love the Americans. They are my best friends.
I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
I'm not American. I still have my Japanese citizenship.
The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.
We are African in origin and American in birth.
In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.
The American people's vote can't be bought.
George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.
Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.
The French, not the Americans, commissioned 'Einstein on the Beach.'
There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Being an American musician means being adventurous.
I'm as proud to be Chinese as I am American.
A home is still the biggest asset that most Americans own.
