The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
When you kill 500,000 children in order to impose your will on other countries, then you shouldn't be surprised when somebody responds in kind.
The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.
Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
Quantum theory provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables.
[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.
Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers.
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. we try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. vain of us? a bit.
Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
America would be a better place if leaders would do more long-term thinking.
When our passion for the Great Commission, becomes our search for the Great Politician, we know we're lost.
To so many people, the Lord is in danger of being no more than a patron saint of our systematic theology instead of the Christ Who is our life.
Make sure it is God's trumpet you are blowing- if it is only yours it won't wake the dead, it will simply disturb the neighbours.
Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end.
A well-made salad must have a certain uniformity; it should make perfect sense for those ingredients to share a bowl.
