Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.
Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.
The U.S. has the most dysfunctional healthcare system in the industrial world, has about twice the per capita costs, and some of the worst outcomes. It's also the only privatized system.
'Divergent,' directed by Neil Burger, displayed an admirable seriousness and some grim verve in laying out the boundaries of novelist Veronica Roth's dystopia - six segregated but ostensibly harmonious regions defined by their inhabitants' skills.
YouTube is the place where people go to consume advertisements willingly. It's some capitalist dystopian nightmare.
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.
For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
Code is just a list of instructions. There are countries that are teaching it as part of the core curriculum. Having some experience in those early years is very important.
Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.
They still have some money, and they have needs to supply. They must begin immediately to pool their earnings and organize industries to participate in supplying social and economic demands.
I think it's smart for the United States to have some kind of tax revenue for international earnings - if that tax were reasonable.
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
Studs are the easiest way to add some edge to your outfit.
Maintaining order in the classrooms has never been easy and it is evident that the school setting requires some easing of the restrictions to which searches by public authorities are ordinarily subject.
