If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.
I would really like to spend more time with the family. Every time I go abroad I miss them all dreadfully.
I have a day job, which means my family isn't dependent on the writing income. So if I have an idea I like, I write it.
If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.
Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.
Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.
I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
Worrying about how you're going to make something is a huge constraint - most people can't make anything at home because it's too expensive.
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.
There may be something to the suggestion about the pace of technological change intimidating writers, though - it's been awfully hard to keep ahead of real developments.
I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life.
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.
Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
