Italy in the 1920s, Germany in the '30s, East Germany in the '50s, Czechoslovakia in the '60s, the Latin American dictatorships in the '70s, China in the '80s and '90s - all dictatorships and would-be dictators target newspapers and journalists.
We often feel a twinge of guilt over our own fascination with presidential candidates' wives - as if we are secretly reading the 'Star' for our campaign information instead of the policy journals.
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.
Back in 2008, when we were first preparing to launch Tor.com, I knew I wanted Jo Walton to be a regular writer for the site.
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).
As I've often said, you can shop online and find whatever you're looking for, but bookstores are where you find what you weren't looking for.
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition.
A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Incidentally, why was it that none of all the pious ever discovered psycho-analysis? Why did it have to wait for a completely godless Jew?
I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him.
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.
I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.
