Private capitalism makes a steam engine; State capitalism makes pyramids..
I'm just worried that the technology I invented in that story ["The Pyramid and the Ass" ] will become real, and George W. Bush will be able to clone….
David Foster Wallace was a brilliant experimentalist who I deeply admire. His ability to do formalism helped me understand how to tackle stories like….
That particular story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] was written during the dark days of the Bush years. George W. Bush had just been "re-elected" (or e….
I have to listen to music while I'm working. Music is essential. It's at the top of the pyramid for me. I've always felt disappointed in what I've ma….
A country, after all, is not something you build as the pharaohs built the pyramids, and then leave standing there to defy eternity. A country is som….
the translator, a lonely sort of acrobat, becomes confused in a labyrinth of paradox, or climbs a pyramid of dependent clauses and has to invent a wa….
What is the minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates? ZERO. The food pyramid is based on a totally irrelevant nutrient..
People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high..
Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes..
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates….
Christian discipleship does not involve the abandonment of any innocent enjoyment. Any diversion or amusement which we can use so as to receive pleas….
Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio p….
I continue to handpick the beetles, mosquitoes feast on me, birds eat the mosquitoes, something else eats the birds, and so on up and down the biotic….
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs.
We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or another Great Wall. But these bu….
The Ancient Egyptians were not fools, Carter. They built the pyramids. They created the first great nation state. Their civilization lasted thousands….
I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes..
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden of the war rested on the few hundred….
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders..
It could hardly be made since the pyramids, it is thought, were erected in the predynastic age under the regency of Pharaoh Cheops. This pharaoh, who….