As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.
Often doctors didn't even tell you what was wrong with you. They just treated you, and sent you home.
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
The time is coming when the pressure of population on the means of subsistence will be felt here as it is now felt in Europe and Asia. Then will the world enter upon a new stage of its history - the final competition of races, for which the Anglo-Sax...
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy.
In writing the history of a disease, every philosophical hypothesis whatsoever, that has previously occupied the mind of the author, should lie in abeyance.
Dell fills its computers with crapware, collecting fees from McAfee and other vendors to pre-install 'trial' versions.
Yet in this global economy, no jobs are safe. High-speed Internet connections and low-cost, skilled labor overseas are an explosive combination.
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
I don't type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that's how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.
Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!
It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.
