I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.
I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
Catherine," she exclaimed, embracing her, then standing back to view her with concern. "Why are you here? Is something wrong? Is everyone well?" "Your family is quite well," Catherine said hastily. "But there was…a situation. I had to leave." Her t...
Percy says be talked to a Nereid in Charleston Harbor!” “Good for him!” Leo yelled back. “The Nereid said we should seek help from Chiron’s brothers.” “What does that mean? The Party Ponies?” Leo had never met Chiron’s crazy centaur...
Smiles were rare in this house. Smiles had to be bought and paid for.
I know, I'm an idiot!" Leo moaned. "A brilliant idiot, but still an idiot.
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
Is that me?,' Leo said. 'Like me--having this dream--looking at me having a dream?
It was a child's awareness, never spoken or even fully acknowledged, but deeply felt.
There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.
You have to really want to be a Navy SEAL. The passion you need to endure the rigors of training, to become the best of the best... It's admirable.
I've never owned a pair of jeans, but I had a fantastic denim boiler-suit and it got a lot of wearing.
Loving relatives and home-cooked meals are solid levees against a recession.
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.
This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.
