Wells Fargo behaves better than the average big bank. But nobody's perfect.
The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
Very few of my characters are based on people I've known. It is too constricting.
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?
And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love, you deceived your legal wife, and all in the name of honour. That was the damned paradox of it - in order to behave well, you have to behave badly.
A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'
A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.
I don't know secret to success, but I'm pretty sure the closest thing is preparation
It interests me tremendously to make copies. . . I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.