There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president.
On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.
You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.
Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.
No one grows up. That's one of the sickest lies they ever tell you. People change. People compromise. People get stranded in situations they don't want to be in… and they make the best of it. But don't try to tell me it's some kind of… glorious preordained ascent into emotional maturity. It's not.
For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.
Being rewarded for anything other than the quality of their work is the fastest way to screw-up a writer-and it isn't only new ones who suffer from that.
Perhaps one of the most meaningful ways to sense the impact of the environmental crisis is to confront the question which is always asked about Lake Erie: how can we restore it? I believe the only valid answer is that no one knows. For it should be clear that even if overnight all of the pollutants now pouring into Lake Erie were stopped, there would still remain the problem of the accumulated mass of pollutants in the lake bottom.
A politician is just like a pickpocket; it's almost impossible to get him to reform.
Sex was like Disneyland to her: an allotment of organized wonders and legal mischief.
I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them.