The electronic town hall allows for speedy communications and bad decision-making.
There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.
America is so vast that almost everything said about it is likely to be true, and the opposite is probably equally true.
Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.
The danger of censorship in cultural media increases in proportion to the degree to which one approaches the winning of a mass audience.
Fitzgerald describes the social disillusionments and ballroom romanticism of the young people of the upper classes and the loneliness of Gatsby, who gives large parties and has an extensive social life; yet he is lonely, and his guests scarcely know him. . . . Hemingway's characters live in a tourist world, and one of their major problems is that of consuming time itself. It is interesting to observe that his works are written from the stand point of the spectator. His characters are usually people who are looking--looking at bullfights, scenery, and at one another across cafe tables.
Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.
think about the way God rules. He doesn't do it by sending in the tanks. He does it by calling servants.
Through default or intention, unaware or by design, we not only choose but create the visible outer conditions that are most resonant to our inner state of being.
We can work on inner peace and world peace at the same time. On one hand, people have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves, like the cause of world peace, because finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered in the good of the whole. On the other hand, one of the ways of working for world peace is to work for more inner peace, because world peace will never be stable until enough of us find inner peace to stabilize it.