I may have a lot of political opinions but it doesn't necessarily come into my work. I keep the two worlds separate.
There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.
The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.
I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves. . . only about you.
Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.
Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature.
Killing is the payoff of war.
How many times did we hear [Barack] Obama say, 'You didn't build that. You didn't build that - no, you need government. ' We even saw Hillary Clinton say - remember her phrase - 'It takes a village to raise a child. ' In other words, your children are not your children - they belong to the community.
While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction.