We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
During my time in Washington, I have become increasingly frustrated by the power held by the gun lobby.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.
For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its produ...
We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.
Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.
The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.
I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.
If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.
I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.
