I'm one of the people who believe the great lines come from either Western or bluegrass music.
One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
Through fasting. . . I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
As I turned around to receive my injection, I said, 'Next time I'll use some protection. ' If I see another girl and I get an erection. . . I'm walking in the other direction!
As for the influence on my writing,music has definitely influenced how I write. That idea of cadence, repetition, all those elements appear throughout my writing. Drumming has definitely had a huge influence on the way I write, too. Has definitely tuned my ear to rhythm. After I've written something, I'll go through it repeatedly, carefully listening to the construction of the words, seeing, hearing how they flow.