I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.
I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and it doesn't get trashed.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
Committing genocide on behalf of an institution generates greater loyalty to it than merely getting people fired from their jobs on its behalf.
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot touch.
If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
There is a certain generation who have grown up being able to mash up, to tinker with, every system they've ever encountered.
Will is nothing more than a particular case of the general doctrine of association of ideas, and therefore a perfectly mechanical thing.
Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.
Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.
The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.
The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.
My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
The world in general has meaning, deep meaning at times. This cannot be dismissed as a delusion, an artifact of chemicals.
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.
I always like the idea of doing interviews with somebody but completely seriously not ever mentioning what that person is generally known for.
But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.
