You just have to hope that they'll grant you an interview.
People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.
Perhaps it's simply the dual nature of marriage, the proximity of violence and love.
You know, as I've grown older, my ideas about sin have changed. I used to believe that sins were things you did, but I don't think that now. I think sins are what you ignore.
I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.
Hardcover and paperback forever. Someone carve that into a tree.
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution.
To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty.
Do more of what you love, less of what you tolerate and none of what you hate.
If you surrender everything to the government and give it total power to plan the whole economy, this will not guarantee your economic security, but it will guarantee the descent of the entire nation to a level of miserable poverty--as the practical results of every totalitarian economy, communist or fascist, have demonstrated.
We had 600 ships, a 600 ship Navy under [Ronald] Reagan. We're down to 200 now [in 2016].