By recognizing your own vulnerability you can recognize and identify with the vulnerability in others.
Everything at a NASCAR event carries a corporate logo except the lavatory stalls.
Don't get me wrong, I think bikes are terrific. I own several of my own, including a trendy mountain style, and ride them for pleasure and light exercise.
If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.
If one is looking for cultural testosterone and raging off-the-wall competition in the world of communications, Manhattan was - and is - home plate.
There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars. " Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.
Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place.
France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.
Unlike modern military codes, ancient texts are almost never purposely misleading, purposely scrambled. . . . indeed, literacy was so uncommon until classical times that the very writing of a message sufficed to keep it from almost everybody.