The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.
Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.
True 'joy' is the difference between just amusing ourselves to death and creating 'meaningful' pleasure.
When you walk with someone, something unspoken happens. Either you match their pace or they match yours.
You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.
I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.
One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.
When he (Roger Clemens) threw the bat (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series), I basically walked out and kept asking him what his problem was. He really had no response. I was trying to figure out whether it was intentional or not. I was going to ask him. If it was, then obviously he really no had response. I was more shocked and confused than anything.