Let me tell you, I am nobody's puppet.
Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.
To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.
A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.
My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.
A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.
Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . .
The free world has need that its foreign policies should fairly measure the realities of the world in which we live. There are certain principles to which we hold: the sanctity of treaties, good faith between nations, the interdependence of peoples from which no country, however powerful, can altogether escape.
If you want an application to be portable, you don't necessarily create an abstraction layer like a microkernel so much as you program intelligently.
I want everybody to hear loud and clear that I'm going to be the president of everybody.