It's a question of trying to take down by dictation what's already there. I'm not making something, I'm trying to hear it.
Porque mostrei enfado com as diligências necessárias para despachar a bagagem, considerou que sofria de horror aos preparativos das viagens, rotulando-me de efodiofóbico.
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.
I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.
The first thing that I really understood politically and was old enough to get was the failed assassination attempt on Reagan.
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.
Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a negative spin on the ways of others and a positive spin on our own.
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.
If you have any power at all from being popular, then you have a duty to help people out.
Such as thy words are such will thine affections be esteemed and such as thine affections will be thy deeds and such as thy deeds will be thy life ...
How can you wonder your travels do you no good, when you carry yourself around with you?
We cannot even recollect the actions of our infancy, our childhood is like something written on a slate and rubbed off.
Science is not going to change its commitment to the truth. We can only hope religion changes its commitment to nonsense.
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
