I consider myself a disciple of Norman Lear. And one of the things he did was topic-driven humor.
The discontent that lies in the human condition is not satisfied simply by material things.
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology.
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.
Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.
One of the things I expect Mr. Trump would look for in a vice president is discretion.
We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
I used to be homophobic, but as I got older, I realized that wasn't the way to do things. I don't discriminate against anybody for their sexual preference, for their skin color... that's immature.
Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know.
The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.
I'm disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I'm cynical but not a cynic. I'm cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
You know, I've been to some superstars' houses, and I've been really disgusted when I see their platinum discs hanging in the toilet. They're just there on the walls glaring at you when you're trying to be occupied with other things.
I'm a guy who is easy to get along with, and I'll put up with a lot of things. But not dishonesty.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.
