The Pulitzer Prize is an idea; it's a vote of confidence. Like literature, it exists purely in the mind.
History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?
There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
If your parents never had children, chances are. . . neither will you.
As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Great humorists are great insulters.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.
My priority is inclusion and justice. We need a system of justice that is applied across the board. That is what this country is striving for. We've suffered from a variety of exclusions. In the past, I compared our situation to a person with scissors who first cut the sleeve, then the fingers, then our body politic to pieces. My job is to stitch the wounds together. We need an agenda of inclusion: the youth, the women, the poor feel an enormous sense of exclusion.
Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify quality.
A lot of people are confused about the difference between the soul and the spirit. Basically the spirit is the envelop that protects the soul from harm. If the spirit is relatively healthy, the soul will be too.