Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management
I lead a very conventional life.
To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.
we are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all.
I don't think anybody feels like they're a good parent. Or if people think they're good parents, they ought to think again.
The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry.
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.
God, Atlantis was only yesterday. Let alone Los Angeles. Remember that incarnation in Los Angeles?
It's hard to be optimistic when you have a misty optic.