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The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your body and get interested in someone else’s. I keep reading between the lies. TV – a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium – we call it a medium because nothing’s well done. Moon rocks are OK when…
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee. We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room. The test for whether or not you can hold a…
I’m a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn’t like to play myself. Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons. I’d heard it was…
John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student. When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can’t complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it’s had an effect and will continue to have an effect. When I…
I always wondered what hearing one’s own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least. Scholars and historians have dubbed the last 100 years the American Century, and I think there can be little doubt that the Council on Foreign Relations helped to…
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle. It was in the Papal States that I studied…
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It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights. A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. Ability is a poor man’s wealth. Adversity is the state in which man most…
Program construction consists of a sequence of refinement steps. Many people tend to look at programming styles and languages like religions: if you belong to one, you cannot belong to others. But this analogy is another fallacy. Software development is technical activity conducted by human beings. Yet, I am convinced that there is a need…
That said, my kids are at home right now with my husband and I’m missing something important at my daughter’s school which makes me feel sick inside. It’s a lot of balance and a lot of really hard decision making. I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of…
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I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle. I don’t write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play. I never cared about money. I never wanted children. If I’d been…
To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it. I’m not financially…
The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry. The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes. Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of…
What turned me on then, and turns me on even today – and when the time comes from me to retire from management I think I’d still be interested in it – is that everything that happens in the world affects the price of securities. You never want to think the best things are in…
Art is always in the eyes of the beholder. Only posterity has the right to point out our mistakes. I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow. A true friend is someone who is there for you when he’d rather be anywhere…
There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part. You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process. You just have to believe in yourself when you’ve got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because…
Ninety-nine per cent of opening bands stink. You know, it’s absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it’s what we’re writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk. When it comes to the recording and writing, it’s still mostly Mickey and I. But now there’s this whole…