All The Asylum Clothing Is Made By The Patients, But Sewing Does Not Employ One's Mind. After Several Months' Confinement The Thoughts Of The Busy World Grow Faint, And All The Poor Prisoners Can Do Is To Sit And Ponder Over Their Hopeless Fate
A Property In The 100-year Floodplain Has A 96 Percent Chance Of Being Flooded In The Next Hundred Years Without Global Warming. The Fact That Several Years Go By Without A Flood Does Not Change That Probability.
Mozart Combined High Formality And Playfulness That Delights As No Other Composition In Any Other Medium Does.
I Have My Own Army In The Nypd, Which Is The Seventh Biggest Army In The World. I Have My Own State Department, Much To Foggy Bottom's Annoyance. We Have The United Nations In New York, And So We Have An Entree Into The Diplomatic World That Washington Does Not Have.
Design Does Matter. And Not Necessarily In A Way That People Realize. A Lot Of What You Do, People Take For Granted - That A Park Has Always Been Here, That A Bicycle Lane Has Always Been There, That The Street Is Safe Or Clean.
What Chance Does A Five-foot-seven Billionaire Jew Who's Divorced Really Have Of Becoming President?
The Thing About Fame, Is You Never Think It's Going To Happen To You. So When It Does, It's Sort Of A Shock. Some People Are Just Better At It Than Others.
The World Gets Older, Without Getting Either Better Or Worse And So Does Literature. But I Do Think That The Drab Current Phenomenon That Passes For Literary Studies In The University Will Finally Provide Its Own Corrective.
I Have Never Believed That The Critic Is The Rival Of The Poet, But I Do Believe That Criticism Is A Genre Of Literature Or It Does Not Exist.
Only When The True Ends Of Society Have Nothing To Do With The Sublime Does "culture" Become Necessary As A Veneer To Cover Over The Void. Culture Can At Best Appreciate The Monuments Of Earlier Faith; It Cannot Produce Them.
