Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.
My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.
He could not fit in my imagination and I was not fit for his Real and the conflict between imagination and real sadly made us apart
Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.
I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.
As a scientist in the field of biological warfare defense, I have never had any reservations whatsoever about helping the anthrax investigation in any way that I could.
False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.
When I was up there at the plate, my purpose was to get on base anyway I could, whether by hitting or by getting hit.
If I heard somebody else say, 'I worked on a movie for five years', I'd be like, 'What? How could it take that long? What were you doing?'
I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Few living figures could contribute as much as Castro to our understanding of the second half of the 20th century.
I wish I could read my books over for the first time to see what you guys see.
Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.
Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.
We could do ourselves a tremendous favor by letting go of the people who poison our spirit.
I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
