No agency is more acutely aware of how potentially damning and politically sensitive background investigations can be than the FBI; it conducts those investigations, after all.
I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
How can any man be weak who dares to be at all?
The 'Hellraiser' situation was pretty darn wonderful and very unusual. Nor did I understand how radically unusual the thesis of 'Nightbreed' was.
We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.
I'm very interested in Darwinism and how that affects us on a day-to-day level. But I also have a deep interest in theology and the spiritual.
No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but that I rarely played the Australian Open?
I don't really know how to relate to a long-term day-in day-out kind of comfortable relationship.
As an author, I've never forgotten how to daydream.
How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.
Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it's not talked about.
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!
My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Our political differences, no matter how sharply they are debated, are really quite narrow in comparison to the remarkably durable national consensus on our founding convictions.
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.