If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.
In some respects, inside information is a form of financial steroid. It is unfair: it is offensive; it is unlawful; and it puts a black mark on the entire enterprise.
Gossip, in its earlier forms, contained information that was critical to survival because, in clans of 150, what happened to anyone had a direct impact on everyone.
As a designer, you have to think in time and see things in sequence. You have to see information as a narrative form - Paul Mijksenaar quoted by Kim Baer
When we live up to our Constitution, let's form a Conga line around the Capitol and bungee jump off the dome.
I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.
If I allow the fact that I am a Negro to checkmate my will to do, now, I will inevitably form the habit of being defeated.
Writing therapy is my form of healing. Try and detach yourself from painful memories by infusing characters and then stepping back.
If you don't have the right support form the right people you are always going to be the best choice and not the preferred choice.
Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.
I hated my childhood. It was loathsome. My parents were deaf and dumb. Profoundly so. They could make noises when they were emotionally aroused, but they couldn't form it into speech.
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.
The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society.
There's a form of selling out. It's necessary. You have to become edible for people in Texas. You have to become edible for the Christian right, for mass audiences.
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Every great tragedy forms a fertile soil in which a great recovery can take root and blossom, but only if you plant the seeds.
Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits, After friendship is formed you must trust, but before that you must judge.
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me.
