The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.

From the beginning I knew my destination, and I chose my route accordingly. But am I working toward an extreme of joy, or of pain? Will I achieve a minimum, or a maximum?

Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.

I like the idea of R-rated franchises.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

We shouldn't just live for today; we should prepare for tomorrow.

Dreck is dreck and no amount of fancy polish is going to make it anything else.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.