As a boy in school, I already had the drive to be No. 1. If I achieve my goals, OK, but if not, I always ask why and try to rectify myself.
Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
A problem with a president who leads by stirring the moral sentiments of voters is that he has got to keep stirring them.
Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves.
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.
Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.
Damning taxes is a piece of cake. It's defending them that's hard.
I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
Throughout the nineteen-seventies and eighties, especially during periods of recession, employees were moved from offices to cubicles.
I considered myself one of the boys. My brothers didn't spoil me at all, not at all. I was very tomboyish. It wasn't as if I was like a princess or anything like that.
When I'm an old lady, I'm going to have my pick of the young men. They'll be like, 'She's Miss Mary Jane!' The young boys will think I'm a hot old lady.
As much as we love being sociable on holiday, part of me craves the idea of being away, staying in a hut on the beach, and maybe not seeing anyone for days apart from Jamie and the boys.
Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.
I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked where were the books about kids like us, and there weren't any at that time.
I'm just getting people warmed up a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time, so I can fully come with, like, a 'Fix You' - type record, or 'One' by U2.
It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.
I have the libido of a 15-year-old boy. My sex drive is so high. I'd rather have sex with Brian all the time than leave the house. He doesn't mind.
I'm aggressive, quite frankly, because Staten Island gets screwed all the time. And if I'm not aggressive, then I won't be successful. That's not being a bad boy. That's doing my job.
During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
