The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
We require Canadians who are collecting EI benefits to prove they are looking for work. It's only fair that we require employers looking to benefit from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to prove they really need it.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
A lot of the main characters in horror movies are outsiders as well, so that outsider syndrome reverberates within horror fans and geeky collectors. It's kind of a rallying call that brings fans and collectors together who are a little socially retarded, maybe.
I went to college in the Air Force, and I went to college at the University of Maryland, who had college campuses on Air Force bases.
I get letters from college kids who have read Percy Jackson when they were younger who tell me, 'I just passed my Classics exam.' The books are accurate enough that they can serve as a gateway to Homer and Virgil.
If anything, I was the opposite of most college students who think they can do anything.
Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.
The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.
Just as somebody who lived through that campaign, I do believe that there was probably collusion. At least between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks... The Trump campaign was just way too ready to jump on whatever leak happened each day.
There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the rubble, many in the deep cellars left from Roman times. They had been hiding there after the retreat from France.
I respect the ones who make it and leave their home base, but I'm good in Colombia.
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants.
How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?
