I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.
Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Aerow creates a drawn out sense of pressure with the use of rather simplistic. Quite frankly, [the music] is fantastic.
However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can’t quite reach.
Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.
The thing I get a lot is, 'You've got a very recognisable face.' I'm never quite sure what to make of it.
And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.
People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.
I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy.
Quite honestly, I was running from myself. But I knew how to work Top 40 radio.
In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
In high school I had sex with girls quite a few times. They were straight women who I convinced to jump in the sack with me.
The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
The idea that somebody who has done something horrible in a war is not willing to talk about it for 32 years is hardly a shocking idea. Quite the contrary.
The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.
Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world.
And so, here at the end of days, you are as you’ve always been. Willing to die. Not willing to quit
