I always thought I would die of cancer because my mom and my dad both died of cancer. My dad died of osteocancer, and my mom died of colon cancer.
I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then they owned both their wives and their wages.
I always had this imagination about making colorful movies. I use to walk to school and daydream about it.
Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.
I've always been a very visual creator. I make mood boards or sit with coloured pencils and scribble and try and figure out what I'm trying to work through musically.
India appeals to everybody. For me personally, I always felt like we would come here when we wanted to embrace all colours. I don't mean racially, but literally; just all the colours of the world.
I'm a military baby, so I kind of always see the world as one; we just have different colours, and we're from different places in the world.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.
Unfortunately, I don't get to read nearly as much as I want because I'm always working on my own stuff, either the novels or newspaper columns.
In the fall of 1989, I was writing 600-word columns at the 'Herald.' My heart always was in long-form narrative writing, though. It's what I cut my teeth on at the 'Boston Phoenix.'
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
It's always a balance... being clear-headed but being aggressive and as combative as you need to be.
