Writers often have the cleanest windows, floors, fridges and toilets, the most up-to-date filing system or the best record for returning calls or e-mails because, in the moment, just about any task seems more palatable than sitting down to write.” ...
The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all j...
In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keeping a diary.' It's hard work to do well. I tried doing it in the early 1990s but had to stop because I no longer had a life - instead I had this thing that generat...
There was something ghost-like and insubstantial about gases to these early chemists. They called liquids that turned into gases easily, "spirits." Methyl alcohol, they called "wood spirit"; ethyl alcohol, "wine spirit." Even today, alcoholic beverag...
Cpl. Judson: Bastard, 88, called me a coon. Spearchucker: Called you a what? Cpl. Judson: Coon. Spearchucker: OK, that's an old pro trick, to get you thrown out of the ball game. Cpl. Judson: Well... Spearchucker: Why don't you do the same thing to h...
Jeffrey Goines: Telephone call? Telephone call? That's communication with the outside world. Doctor's *discretion*. Nuh-uh. Look, hey - all of these nuts could just make phone calls, they could spread insanity, oozing through telephone cables, oozing...
Sedona is beautiful, but your soul is even more beautiful.
Of course, I did lots of what would be called graphic design now, what used to be called commercial art.
Great idea," I said. "Call the police. Call the fucking police.
Many so-called disorders of the mind are simply disorders of thought.
Plus my boots were made of awesome.
I once called the head of a network a liar. In hindsight, I should have called him an incompetent liar.
What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.
I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.
When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man.
A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician.
The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.
I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
