Works of art are meant to be lived with and loved, and if we try to understand them, we should try to understand them as we try to understand anyone ….

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in product….

Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower..

I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone..

I'm just going to be me..

What hasn't been talked about a lot is that President Trump signed an order that puts in place a constant deregulatory form within the federal govern….

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help anothe….

I hope we have American-topias..

I am competitive, and I like to be as competitive as possible in anything I do..

To the end of history, social orders will probably destroy themselves in an effort to prove they are indestructible..

Not much happens in Russian Federation without Vladimir Putin..

We all have to meet our match sometime or other..

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia..

Use design as a framework to bring order out of chaos..

If our free society is to endure, and I know it will, those who govern must recognize that the Framers of the Constitution limited their power in ord….

My position is that you do not have to practice a religion in order to have a religion..

I never learned to read music..

The end goal of meditation is to do whatever helps slow your mind down, in order to achieve a peaceful, positive state of mind and body..

Oh, if you only knew what joy, what sweetness awaits a righteous soul in Heaven! You would decide in this mortal life to bear any sorrows, persecutio….

'Revolution' does not necessarily involve sanguinary strife nor is there any place in it for individual vendetta. It is not the cult of the bomb and ….

Real cities have something else, some individual bony structure under the muck. Los Angeles has Hollywood -- and hates it. It ought to consider itsel….