It was pleasant - and the sense of otherness was nice, that there were two people involved in this process, that we were each giving something to the other.

Are our lives just the aggregate of the lies we've told? ('Lives' - the 'v' is silent.)

Hot crumpets with butter and jam - what could be more ambrosial?

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

what has been termed 'correct' English is nothing other than the blatant legitimation of the white middle-class code.

California: Sunny nutland.

The rockets... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft.

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values.

Christians must allow no unclean thing to interfere with a harmonious relationship with Christ.

It's beginning to feel like there is no room in America for anyone who is not a fundamentalist Christian.

Occasionally I encounter people getting into their cars who will say, "Oh, you haven't been walking lately" - like I'm a symbol of the ancient art of walking!

If you say someone is good, at something, what is your benchmark? Who are you comparing them with? When evaluating capability, or success, in anything, don't listen to mumbo-jumbo rubbish.