Our entire personality, our energy level, and how we cope is hormonal.
For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we've found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky... And that's how we stay entertained, and that's how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.
I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.
Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.
I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.
If the child has not an object that it can occupy itself with, it feels ennui; for it does not yet know how to occupy itself with itself.
There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How ought we to watch over our thoughts, that we may not so much as imagine any enormity!
I get enraged when people start telling other people how to live their lives.
My short stature may have something to do with my tendency to shout when enraged. How else is anyone going to hear me way down here?
I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.
They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
Anybody that's got a problem with me is probably envious or wants to be me, and that's how I've always looked at it.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
I am a Congregationalist with Catholic sensibilities. Which probably explains how I ended up in a Episcopal church.
Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.
One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar.
Tensions and violence in cities across America are reminders of how quickly communities can erupt with an absence of social trust.
When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.
