I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be read more

I think all good writing is a struggle. To write as well as you feel you can has to be a struggle, almost by definition, because you could always improve.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with read more

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights read more

Others, like many of us, like ""the good Germans"" of another era, turn our heads away from this human rights catastrophe against, in turn, another 'despised' minority: the Palestinian people. Their resistance to brutal ethnic cleansing is, ironically, labeled ""anti-Semitic.""

It's a fresh start for him. He doesn't have to think about the playoff race or anything. Everybody starts at read more

It's a fresh start for him. He doesn't have to think about the playoff race or anything. Everybody starts at zero. It's a great opportunity for us. We're getting older and it might be our last big tournament for our country. I think he's just going to enjoy the Olympic experience and make the most of the opportunity.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different.

I was just tired of being a big fish in a small pond. This will be something different.

Why not be silent, patient, and watchful like a photographer?

Why not be silent, patient, and watchful like a photographer?

We are ready to talk, but it is just an exploratory conversation, since Brazil isn't negotiating with the United Kingdom. read more

We are ready to talk, but it is just an exploratory conversation, since Brazil isn't negotiating with the United Kingdom. The negotiation involves the G-20 (the group of 21 developing countries), Europe, and the United States.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For read more

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.