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I don't think I'm morbid by nature. Serious writers have always written about serious subjects. Lighthearted material doesn't appeal to me, and I don't read it. I think I'm a realist, with a realistic sensibility of history and the tragedy of history.

Usually, if you think something's wrong, it probably is...

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys.

Portland is utopia. My favorite thing would be it's earnestness. I am earnest, too.

'The Walking Dead' never wants you to get too comfortable with characters and cast members. I think about the time you feel fairly secure with your appreciation of a character is about the time the show will gut-punch you.

I loved running, but all of a sudden everything hurt so much. I started cycling when Zelda was born.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

I am all for the short and merry life.

Creating efficiencies in private markets is a huge win for the economy.

I never thought I'd run for president. My parents were immigrants to this country - and leader of the free world was not on the list of careers presented to me as a skinny Asian kid growing up in upstate New York.

The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

Britain beat us to the abolition of slavery; the Isle of Man, New Zealand, and Finland all decided to give women the vote well before the United States. Eventually, we got smart and borrowed these egalitarian innovations.

It shouldn't take extreme courage and a willingness to go to prison for decades or even life to blow the whistle on bad government acts done in secret. But it does. And that is an immense problem for democracy, one that all journalists should be united in fighting.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.