A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
The internet is very democratizing in some ways, but it also has other effects.
Journalism, some huge percentage of it, should be devoted to putting pressure on power, on nonsense, on chicanery of all kinds and if that's going to invite a lawsuit, well, bring it on.
The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.
The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.
I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.
A. J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!
I'm reading a manuscript by Rodney Jones, "Village Prodigies",it's one of the best contemporary poetry books I've ever read ever.
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.