The idea now that we're going to fight terrorism through gun control I think is just utterly fatuous.
But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.
There is a real connection between Philosopy and fiction.
I imagined it. I wrote it. But I guess I never thought I'd see it.
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.
Why was it, Lloyd wondered, that the people who wanted to destroy everything good about their country were the quickest to wave the national flag?
Love is an impossible concept.
Why couldn't I have just made it home without seeing them? I wasn't in the mood to play good freaking Samaritan to Beau and his trashy girlfriend.
Obama had the media; Obama had the judiciary; Obama had all kinds of support. At an Obama press conference, typical question, "What enchants you?" I mean, Obama was never challenged seriously by the media.
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.