To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
I don't think you could change my father; he is a very strong character. He believes totally in honesty.
Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by my friends the murderers.
If there's a fire, I want to be there. Maybe because in being so close to death, I think I understand what it means to be truly alive.
Patrick Henry did not say, 'Give me absolutely safety or give me death.' America is supposed to be about freedom.
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.
If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.
The True Self is not our creation, but God's. It is the self we are in our depths. It is our capacity for divinity and transcendence.
God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.
I had a great childhood. I think writers are always better off when they have more twisted childhoods, but I didn't.
There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
There's a great appetite for smart television. Every day I get up and there are interesting stories I want to do.
