Quotes
I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.
I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.
I used to do impersonations: Harry Butler in the wild, or I'd do Gough Whitlam.
I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.
He made the impossible possible.
I not only get recognized - I get recognized from behind.
The more opinions you have, the less you see.
There's no plan on what novel I plan to write next. I never know what I'm going to do one minute to the next. I don't have a master plan.
It's like Presbyterianism and Industrial Socialism doesn't exist anymore. It's all consumer capitalism, like everywhere else.
I spend so much time on the screen when I am writing, the last thing you want to do is spend more time on the Internet looking at a screen. That's what I hate about all this technology.
Football now, to be honest, it bores me. You can publish the salaries of the teams and then you look at the standings and they are almost the same.
John J. Welsh
The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either.
A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs.
If you're masochistic enough to program in ADA, we're not going to stop you.
Are Linux users lemmings collectively jumping off of the cliff of reliable, well-engineered commercial software?
Victories should be won by people where they live, but if the victories never affect national or international centers of decision-making power, then we are still not seriously contesting for power.
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
Right now the whole does not equal the sum of the parts.
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.