Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I'm shallow.
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
I have the same friends and the same bad habits.
If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.
Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones.
My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.