It's often the material things that provide the essence of memory.

If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.

If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.

Jargon marks the place where thinking has been. It becomes a kind of macro, to use a computer term: a way of storing a complicated sequence of thinking operations under a unique name.

Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

Nostalgic memory is a sudden encounter with the thingness of the thing that has been forgotten, not the continuous desire for possessions, whether past, present, or future.

The people knew then that Greg wasn't a monster, just a hungry animal.

No nation can answer for the equity of proceedings in all its inferior courts. It suffices to provide a supreme judicature by which error and partiality may be corrected.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it as best I can. I'm going to give it everything.

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Yeah, you can explore a lot more. Every one of the storylines is multi-faceted, so there are so many directions that it can go. It makes each episode so interesting.

Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.

I think I understand what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers.