Good things happen when you get your priorities straight.
People who are pro smacking children say, 'It's the only language they understand. ' You could apply that to tourists.
I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.
I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting excited about them when they appear to be. going well.
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
I'm not really part of any group or clique or gang because that's always been my nature.
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti
When you see an opportunity to change the world, get up and get the job done!
911 was a genuine trauma, and President George W. Bush rallied the country. I think the Iraq war was ill-considered, but there - it was done in the wake of a national trauma. And that the errors made under such circumstances are different than errors made in the cold.