Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.
Building on the work of George Macdonald, William Morris and Edward Plunkett, what became known as high fantasy was more or less invented by J. R. R. Tolkien.
When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.
I have Glocks, .45s, Berettas, Remingtons. I like the marksmanship and the discipline that it takes to be a gun owner. I like the machinery. Being able to take it out and clean it is even more fascinating than having the gun.
Macintosh felt like a system. As I learned more, I felt like I was able to guess how new things would work. I felt like the bugs in my programs were more my bugs and not things I misunderstood.
The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.
Madam: If you discover any more comets, can you not wait until they are announced by the proper authorities?
I always wanted to be Jo in 'Little Women.' She's a bit reckless and feckless, always getting into trouble like me. But I'm probably more like Madame Bovary.
More than anything tough, I play 'Madden'. I'm a football guy at heart; maybe I should have played football for a living instead, because I play a lot of football videogames. I'm really into them.
It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.
Once you become more like Madison Avenue, you become acutely sensitive to what's going to annoy your clients.
There's more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It's an Eden for a composer.
When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
Though not a natural world by any means, more like a collection of living dioramas, a zoo exists in its own time zone, somewhere between the seasonal sense of animals and our madly ticking watch time.
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
Madrid is Madrid. There's nothing more to say. It's the biggest team in the world.
The more you head into the maelstrom, the more vulnerable you are, of course. But it's what you owe to whatever gift you have.
The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.
European leaders cannot afford to be afraid. The refugee crisis is not one from which they can opt out. No magic wand will empower leaders to transport more than a million people back across the Aegean and the Bosphorus to Mosul and Aleppo, or across the Mediterranean to Eritrea, Somalia, and Sudan.
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
