GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.
I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.
Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.
I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.
I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E. Dodd.
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.
I know I will die in a car crash.
She bent her finger and then straightened it. The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. It was like a wave breaking. If she could only find herself at the crest, she thought, she might find the secret of herself, that part of her that was really in charge. She brought her forefinger closer to her face and stared at it, urging it to move. It remained still because she was pretending. . . . And when she did crook it finally, the action seemed to start in the finger itself, not in some part of her mind.
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.