D. C. is a hard city to grow up in. I couldn't find my footing there. Also, I got a late start academically, and I was dyslexic.
I buy way too many books.
In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
Fiction, because it is not about somebody who actually lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself.
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.
I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves.
We can rattle our sabers all we want but, realistically, we don't have troops for an invasion [Iran] and surgical strikes aren't going to work.
There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.
A "communistsocialistprogressive" is an oxymoron, like an "atheistevangelical ChristianMuslim. "
There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.