The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
What connects two thousand years of genocide? Too much power in too few hands.
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects.
If I could get the respect of 14-year-olds, I'm happy. They're the toughest audience.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.
When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
I went through some tough years when I first moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Riches' was my first major success.
I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
I will spend the next four years rebuilding the foundation of a opportunity society led by free people and free enterprises.
I'd like to say I was smart enough to finish six grades in five years, but I think perhaps the teacher was just glad to get rid of me.
Without competition, the spectacular development of technology that we have seen in the last one hundred years in this country would not have happened.
I have loved hosting over the years, simply because I love working with people. It's the perfect job.
But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old - apart from a few hits - is never played on radio to the young public?
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.
