However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.
Plot and character are virtually the same thing.
You can have data without information, but you cannot have information without data.
Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.
Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
I'm a nerd and you bet I love what I do. I am so damn good at it.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intellectually and politically paralyzed.
An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [. . . ] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.
I believe the ability to measure with precision the degree of human activities' impact on the climate, is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it.