Most people presume my mustache is not real because it's much darker than my regular hair.
I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.
You have to understand the separation between what exists in the print media and what exists in reality. It's important to never lose track of reality.
President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.
Children are not simply commodities to be herded into line and trained for the jobs that white people who live in segregated neighborhoods have available.
In many of the high schools in the South Bronx, more children will end up in prison than will go to college.
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more: Peace in the hearts of all men living, peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
As a CEO of a large company, clearly we need policies in the U.S. government that are pro-business, because at the end of the day, we all work within the framework of a country's policies.
The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
I saw myself as a teacher's pet but with a little of Ed Haskell mixed in. I was the teacher's pet, but that didn't mean that I was trying to pull one over.
I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 percent to write.
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
I think a lot of times when people talk about merchants, it's almost a nostalgic look back at the time where the world moved at a very different pace, and information was very different.
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
