I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it.
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then ration...
From middle school to the first year of high school, I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there was terrifying. Those people were so scary. They're the scariest ki...
Union members not only earn higher median wages; they are more likely to have paid sick leave, short-term disability, and employer-provided child care. Giving people a voice at work - the ability to organize and negotiate for their fair share of the ...
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I g...
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the tem...
The ages live in history through their anachronisms.
He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.
I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
I didn't have any success in show business until I was 30 to 31 years of age.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
