You have a hundred senators, but for anything to happen you need 60, which makes it really hard for anything to happen.
At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.
It seemed like a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. . . He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world
I'm an occasional drinker, the kind of guy who goes out for a beer and wakes up in Singapore with a full beard.
To say goodbye is to die a little.
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
As an actor, I still dont really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.
Religious traditions hold enormous value, extraordinary wisdom, breathtaking insights into the human experience, but they are limited to the degree that there has not been a new theological idea expressed by any of the major religions for thousands of years.