I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics.
Government can screw up just about everything. Given enough power and time it will screw up everything.
The Fed's low-interest policy not only encourages spending and borrowing, it discourages the one thing that best helps people raise themselves into higher economic classes — saving.
The new puritans have been highly successful. All of the preconditions for new prohibitions on alcohol and tobacco are in place. . . . Indeed, the future agenda of the federal government has already been established to outlaw alcohol and tobacco in the near future. . . . If current trends persist, America will be moving toward stricter prohibitions, greater restrictions, and more centralized control over consumption. This represents an erosion of liberty at its most fundamental level.
Often really what you need is someone who will believe in you, who will encourage you to believe in yourself.
I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.
Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.
Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came from. I was used to dry clarity and sharpness in the air. I was used to horizons that either lifted into jagged ranges or rimmed the geometrical circle of the flat world. I was used to seeing a long way. I was used to earth colors--tan, rusty red, toned white--and the endless green of Iowa offended me. I was used to a sun that came up over mountains and went down behind other mountains. I missed the color and smell of sagebrush, and the sight of bare ground.