In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.
You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
The meanings of words are not in the words, they are in us.
In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
The hard part on the subway is that you have, let's say, eight hours, but you have to hit these deadlines. From here to here, you can use this part. From this time to this time, you can use that part, and you have to hit them and it gets very stressful.
Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me any harm.
We don't know the power that's within our own bodies
How should we judge what we see? More intimately, let us consider the vulnerability of the human body and soul under these circumstances. It’s all creation. It’s made. It’s not a given.