I Have Been Fighting Over Commas All

Mozart And Neil Diamond May Have Begun With The Same Idea, But That A Work Of Art Is More Than An Idea Is Confirmed By The Difference Between The 'soave Sia Il Vento' And 'kentucky Woman.' We Have Different Words For 'art' And 'idea' Because They Are Two Different Things.

If You Know Anything About Islamic Civilization, Or About The Contemporary Middle East, About The Sociology And The Anthropology Of The People Who Live There, And Their Recent History, And Their Religion, And Their Motivation And Everything, Then You Realize That Changing Iraq Into A Democracy Is Not Going To Happen. It's Just Not Going To Happen.

A Lot Of People Hate Heroes. I Was Criticized For Portraying People Who Are Brave, Honest, Loving, Intelligent. That Was Called Weak And Sentimental. People Who Dismiss All Real Emotion As Sentimentality Are Cowards. They’re Afraid To Commit Themselves, And So They Remain ‘cool’ For The Rest Of Their Lives, Until They’re Dead—then They’re Really Cool.

When You Die, You Know, You Hear The Insistent Pounding That Defines All Things, Whether Of Matter Or Energy, Since There Is Nothing In The Universe, Really, But Proportion.

I Have Always Thought Limousines Make Me Dreadfully Uncomfortable, Just The Way That Suits Do. When I Wear A Suit, I Feel Like Ants And Termites Are Crawling All Over My Body. It's Really, Really Uncomfortable. People Put Themselves In A Kind Of Prison. It's Like The World Of The Embassies.