For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much.
Michael C. Hall is an incredibly detailed actor who can convey so much with just an eyebrow.
What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.
Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.
The diets and lifestyles in many other countries are much healthier than in the United States.
Obama's space policy doesn't differ much from George W. Bush's.
I also like to eat very much, so I like all different types of foods.
Before Starbucks, there wasn't as much of a coffeehouse routine; we generally drank really cruddy diner coffee.
Boys like either dinosaurs or airplanes. I was very much an airplane boy.
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
Capacity of human societies both to absorb and to discard cultures is much underestimated.
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.
Gerard and I pretty much share all parenting responsibilities, although I'm definitely the disciplinarian.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.
Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
