The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
There's a ritualistic element to tragedy that everyone shares; there's something curiously glorious in terms of the most horrible kind of events that happen.
To me, the real 'state of the union' is found in how Americans react to current events.
For 18 years I have resisted talking about current events. I am not going to start now.
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
I'm very lucky, because my beat is current events. And events are changing all the time.
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Events tend to recur in cycles.
Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
If one has no compass, when one doesn't know where one stands and where one wants to go, one can deduce that one has no leadership or interest in shaping events.
There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.
One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.