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This is a mad planet, David Bowie said in 1971. It's doomed to madness.

But the film is a saddening bore, 'cause I wrote it ten times or more.

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Others also credit Soros with this impressive (and terrifying) feat! The right-wing Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute repeat the accusation, along with many GOP politicians. But… but wasn't that supposed to be Ronald Reagan?

The Tandu were daring, but they did not add to their crimes the gaucherie of originality.

Like California . . . contemporary New Zealand had gradually transformed its longstanding tradition of tolerance into a positive fetish for eccentricity.

Obviously they thought their Lord was giving the haughty tirbeswoman

Excuse me for being greedy, but I want freedom and good government.

To get the most attention, the essay should be wrong. Logical essays are read and understood. But an illogical or wrong essay will prompt dozens of other writers to rise and respond, thus giving the author mounds of publicity.

Truth is singular and lies are plural, but history - the facts of what happened is both immutable and mostly unknowable.

World-Directed Shoulds lead to frustration and anger when the world doesn't meet our expectations. For example, I sometimes tell myself that this or that software program shouldn't be so dang complicated and hard to learn!

Anarcho-capitalism is not by definition libertarian. It is rather a prediction, not a definition.

Garion started shaving. Try to keep away from your nose, said Hettar wryly. A man looks quite strange without a nose.

Why are the people all so unhappy? he asked Mister Wolf. They have a stern and demanding God, Wolf replied. Which God is that? Garion asked. Money, Wolf said.

It was a good day for a ride, but not a good day for being chased. No day was good for that.

years. Just as the secret of real estate is location, location, location, the real secret to Yale's remarkable continuing success is defense, defense, defense.

Writers change the world one heart, one mind, at a time. That should be enough to keep us going.

When a Promise-based asynchronous computation completes normally, it passes its result to the function that is the first argument to then().

Good fiction's job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

sarcasm and jokes were often the bottle in which clinical depressives sent out their most plangent screams for someone to care and help them.

Really good fiction could have as dark a worldview as it wished, but it'd find a way both to depict this world and to illuminate the possibilities for being alive and human in it. [Q&A with Larry McCaffery, Review of Contemporary Fiction , Summer 1993, Vol. 13.2]

Genuine pathological openness is about as seductive as Tourette's Syndrome.

the air over the table like the sparkling space just above a fresh-poured seltzer.

I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.