It was quiet in the cell. Rubashov heard only the creaking of his steps on the tiles. Six and a half steps to the door, whence they must come to fetch him, six and a half steps to the window, behind which night was falling. Soon it would be over. But...
To defend my fear of sudden change, I chose to believe that life was incremental, that the tiny decisions you make every day determine your fate, that your job is to captain an enormous ship subtly into ever-clearer waters. But that’s not how it wo...
The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcraft trials in Salem during 1691, the Moscow trials of 1937 during which Stalin destroyed all of the founders of the 1924 Soviet REvolution, the Sacco-V...
It is necessary to realize that the most sacrosanct article of sexual politics in the period, the Victorian doctrine of chivalrous protection and its familiar protestations of respect, rests upon the tacit assumption, a cleverly expeditious bit of hu...
I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they hav...
I thought leaving you would be easy, just walking out the door but I keep getting pinned against it with my legs around your waist and it’s like my lips want you like my lungs want air, it’s just what they where born to do so I am sitting at work...
[first lines] Title Card: Robert Gould Shaw, the son of wealthy Boston abolitionists, was 23 years old when he enlisted to fight in the War Between the States. He wrote home regularly, telling his parents of life in the gathering Army of the Potomac....
I may be a criminal lunatic, but I'm an AMERICAN criminal lunatic!
We are in a world where most American citizens over the age of 12 share things with each other online.
I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.
The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.
I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.
There's no mistaking the fact that some of the best longform fiction out there now is in American television. 'The Wire' and 'Deadwood' and 'The Sopranos.'
I love 'The Americans.' I think it's one of the best shows on TV.
All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best.
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.
As an American, I grew up in an era where we led the world in everything. Everything!
Most of my comedies were low on budgets - certainly by American standards.
I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'
