There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.
And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing. . . . It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
Syntax and vocabulary are overwhelming constraints --the rules that run us. Language is using us to talk --we think we're using the language, but language is doing the thinking, we're its slavish agents.
You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.
I graduated in 1952 and went to Europe, with Niki and our first child Laura, who was then a year old.
Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
If you want to be a professional footballer, you have to respect your profession. You have to respect the people that are making you the star you are. You have to protect the passion everyday.
Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!
If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I think it was the Soviet experience.