I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
I am not bothered about my career graph, as I am someone who doesn't believe in planning things.
A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.
There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.
Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others.
My first novel, 'Housekeeping,' was accepted by the first agent who read it, and bought by the first editor who read it. In general, my experience with publication has been gentle and gratifying.
We all got here from somewhere else going back in our lineage. And I think these gratuitous attacks on Americans who got here recently or whose parents got here recently need to stop.
Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
I wasn't a kid who wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a doctor. I was kind of morbid. I was really into the body and how it could go wrong. I wanted to dig up bodies from the graveyard.
The political graveyards are full of people who don't respond.
Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Recent results from astronomers who study the occasional gravitational lensing of unknown worlds by intervening stars suggest that orphan planets could be at least as numerous as the stars. In other words, there could be hundreds of billions of orphan worlds shuffling through our galaxy.
I'm a person who has to eat! I graze every few hours.
I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them.
