J. W. N. Sullivan Quotes
...when a reporter is quoting Sid Blumenthal on president Bush, you know he's scraping the barrel.
When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.
When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.
Here’s why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.
Homophobia whether internalized or externalized is really fear; it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.
Cisco has been both a pioneer in legitimizing VoIP as an alternative to traditional telephony but also an innovator as it has maintained its competitive lead over the past decade.
Agriculture's not insulated from having a percentage of people who might be really good old graziers, but they're no good as business people.
Tapes, as we all know, are very powerful evidence. Tapes that are altered are powerfully misleading.
I don't feel like the real, transcendental sound experiences I've had in my life have anything to do with intellect.
I think it's fair to say we're both in the business of self-obliteration through music.
The superabundance alludes to the myth that is ensuring our demise but it's also the space around and possibly the void that we enter into, beyond that delusion.
I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.
Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.
For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.
Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.
If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.
There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.
She thought about him all the time - not so much about Doug the individual, but rather about the nature of love, and the shock of learning how quickly it could disappear.
Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.
When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness
The hypothesis that life has developed from inorganic matter is, at present, still an article of faith.
Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.
As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.
I think a lot of the way that I try to write my stories come from watching my mom write plays and trying to do that.
I'm not great with breathing, like holding notes. I usually don't. A lot of people wouldn't believe it, but I don't focus on technical stuff.
Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.
At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.
Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.