Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'
Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
Since that moment in Houston where I fractured my collarbone, I've experienced a lot more experiences in the NFL than I had up to that point. A lot of them great, some of them not so great.
Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.
The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a momentary, fragmentary experience that has a totality to it. It's kind of like fireworks. It's the more ephemeral of art forms - once it's gone, it's gone, baby.
Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.
Increased fragmentation of production across international borders - a natural outgrowth of the gains from specialization - meant more trade for any given value of final production, thus adding to the major expansion in gross trade flows in the 1990s and 2000s.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
Our society needs to become less fragmented and more open to alternative viewpoints.
What child has ever known the country and has not twined hundreds of fragrant wreaths with the yellow shining cowslip and the more frail and delicate violet - mingling here and there green leaves culled from the odorous eglantine, or, as we more commonly call it, sweetbriar.
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
The insurance of working with a big, already successful franchise just gives you the chance to do other things on a more personal level.
Even in my own church I heard the words, 'Francis Chan' more than I heard the words, 'Holy Spirit.'
I started seeing in the monsters as a more sincere form of religion because the priests were not that great, but Frankenstein was great.
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.
Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
