I don't crave Hollywood.
The economic base of that rural Oregon area used to be manufacturing and logging. And that went away and they feel nobody has been speaking to them and finally Donald Trump has spoken to them.
To politicize a man's tragic death is about as low as you can go, isn't it?
In the absence of evidence, superstition. It's a Middle Ages thing. That's my theory anyway.
Is calling English our national language racist? Are we at that point?
Studies have shown people listen to TV than watch it.
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
What could be more absurd than the idea that genuine anti-Christian prejudice is a major force in American politics.
If something must be true for us, as humans, to exist, than it is true simply because we exist.
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for differing with him on the subject of the Trinity. They say that God says to me, "Forgive your enemies. " I say, "I do;" but he says, "I will damn mine. " God should be consistent. If he wants me to forgive my enemies he should forgive his. I am asked to forgive enemies who can hurt me. God is only asked to forgive enemies who cannot hurt him. He certainly ought to be as generous as he asks us to be.