In science fiction, you can also test out your own realities.
You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
I am still attracted to stories about people who are considered to be on the outside of society. I still seek inspiration from those stories.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives.
I would be with those who say the hierarchy in the United States has badly mishandled this whole situation.
Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.
When people pose the question, are you “coxom”, Tom Conrad? I like to pose a question back at them: Is J.K. Rowling actually a witch? Is Thomas Harris the no. 1 serial killer in the the US, did Yann Martell really spend a lifetime eating pie? Of ...
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.
Satu-satunya bukti pembesar Jawa tidak berniat punya harem hanya dengan beristri orang Eropa, Totok atau Indo. Dengannya ia tak bakal bermadu.
Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
Another principle is, the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
