Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.
You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1. 40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.
I really look forward to revisiting this body of work which has been such a huge part of my life and bringing it to the concert stage. And the idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.
Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.
Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.