Fear is the assassin of dreams
From dreams reality is born.
I've got heaps of dreams.
I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.
Of all the London theatres, the Donmar is the dream.
Evangelism is selling a dream.
The devil goes away and heaven comes to stay.
When the earth is hot, the worm stays in the ground.
Hens perched on top will shit on those below.
You cannot hide the sun with one hand.
When civilians are not asked to pay any price, it's easy to be at war - not just to intervene in a foreign land in the first place, but to keep on fighting there. The justifications for staying at war don't have to be particularly rational or cogentl...
I am a child of the American Century, and I feel a genetic commitment to understanding why it happened, and why I take it so personally.
Statistically, if you're reading this sentence, you're an oddball. The average American spends three minutes a day reading a book. At this moment, you and I are engaged in an essentially antiquated interaction. Welcome, fellow Neanderthal!
As often I have been a science fiction writer writing science fiction for the community of science fiction readers, I am also, for good or ill, an American writing American literature to an American audience. Most fundamentally, though, I am a human ...
I have four relatively small children, and around fourth grade, they start doing big projects on Native Americas: everything is Native Americans in elementary school. Do you know how many Native American dresses I've sewn, on and on; it's a full year...
I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies
...there is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.... (p. 111)
And the fools… well, the fools are there for us to fleece and then to show mercy.
Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life.
Don't let the American accent fool you. I am British.
An American citizen is not going to be extradited to Japan for saving whales.
