I think that what you’ve got to do is discover the essential truth of the situation, and have a point of view about it.
I'm the one who has to have everybody throw rocks at me all the time, so at least if they're going to throw rocks at me, they're going to throw rocks at me for something I love rather than something I think is not very good, or at least something I think is not finished.
We must contemplate what the meaning of being "educated" is. Some people think a person with plenty of degrees is an educated one. But I believe a person who can judge a situation correctly and make timely decisions is more important.
Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.
For me I look at a group like Queen or ACDC or the Beastie Boys. There was melody within what they did. There was a certain style with what they did. I think it is coming back.
Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.
I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any dialects, and yeah, it's very complex. That Rhode IslandMassachusetts New England region is arguably the hardest dialect to nail.
People don't like preaching, but discussion, presenting a case, and that's important. Therefore, I think we need to learn to dialogue much more.
In some senses, I think it's almost deliberately anachronistic. There's a retro feel to the [Donald] Trump program.
[Theodore Roosevelt] was a naturalist on the broadest grounds, uniting much technical knowledge with knowledge of the daily lives and habits of all forms of wild life. He probably knew tenfold more natural history than all the presidents who had preceded him, and, I think one is safe in saying, more human history also.
I think it's very important that the United States keeps out of the local electoral process in Mexico.
Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.
As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.
Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.
I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.
And I think about my cell at the Pawiak prison. During the first week I felt I would not be able to endure a day without a book, without the circle of light under the parafin lamp in the evening, without a sheet of paper, without you. . . .
I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
We didn't think taxes ought to go up. They ought to go down. We didn't think the census ought to be weakened.
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.