Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.
Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.
A lot of work and money has been spent on astronomy and yet we have not found life. So we are rare, and rare things tend to be fragile and you have to be careful about them
A tolerant society is one in which we criminalise an activity only as a last resort. Toleration is not just about allowing people to do things of which we approve, but about allowing them to do things of which we do not approve.
Global climate change needs global action now. The alarm bells ought to be ringing in every capital of the world.
Do we have to wait until a disaster overwhelms us before we make the radical changes necessary to protect our world for future generations? That is the vital challenge of sustainable development. If we act now there is much that can be saved which will otherwise disappear forever
It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow.
I really do think that any deep crisis is an opportunity to make your life extraordinary in some way.
What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? What you end up doing is you spend your life searching for a father and God. What you have to consider is the possibility that God doesn't like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.
I don't rule out the possibility of legislating a Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, a market-based mechanism.
I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.