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Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.

I can never marry an obese guy.

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.

Only thing I ever thought I'd see is a picture with me in a uniform with stripes on it and a number under my mug shot.

It's a long old road, but I know I'm gonna find the end.

For most Americans, work is central to their experience of the world, and the corporation is one of the fundamental institutions of American life, with an enormous impact, for good and ill, on how we live, think, and feel.

Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.

Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

The Great Migration can get forgotten if we don't pay attention or bear witness to it. It's part of my personal history and the history of millions of African Americans who left those oppressive conditions for better lives in the North. It's important to put that on the page.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

A pen is a piano for a writer. The magnificence of the music depends on the inner and outer perceptions of the writer.

For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

As a novelist, I mined my history, my family and my memory, but in a very specific way. Writing fiction, I never made use of experiences immediately as they happened. I needed to let things fester in my memory, mature and transmogrify into something meaningful.

When you're 20 or 30, looking ahead, you see these benchmarks for relationships, career, ambition, sexuality, and they went off into infinity. When you get to 50, you look at what's ahead of you, and there's an end. It goes into a nothingness, a void.

Coming to Atlanta was like being in a country club. It was really tame in the locker room in WCW compared to New York.

I was a vocal presence in the dressing room as an 18-year-old at Leeds.