If you want truth you should begin by giving it.
You know you're screwed when a Western doctor recommends acupuncture.
You should never read online comments if you want to keep thoughts above the belt.
People don't hijack planes anymore because that old system of hijacking in order to barter for a prison release or get to a different country no longer works, exactly, because 911 recoded the hostage's interpretation of a hijack. If a hijacker isn't trying to use the plane as a missile, then he is in danger of being killed by the hostages. There is no minor terror threat anymore. No mid-level terrorism.
There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft and I'm nowhere near done.
If I'd done the discovery before I wrote the book, then there would be nothing to discover. It would feel dutiful instead of exciting.
Every once in a while when I get a migraine, I like to think, "Who hates me today?"
We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.
Taking photographs is generally an act of 'looking at the object, whereas 'being seen' or 'showing' is what is most interest to one who does a self-portrait. . . self-portraits deny not only photography itself but the 20th century as an era as well. . . an inevitable phenomenon at the end of the 20th century.
If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment.
Steel True, Blade Straight.