Forgiving someone isn't just about doing good to another. It's also about healing a scar in your own heart.
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.
But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.
I think that too many strangers were in Nina Simone life, and not enough people that she knew and loved.
Dancing with The Stars' is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.
For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.