As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.
Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.
Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
If we judged everybody by the stupid, unguarded things they blurt out to their nearest and dearest, then we wouldn't ever get anywhere.
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts.
Revolution comes when human beings set out to correct decadent institutions.
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
Your No. 1 priority as a defender is to keep the ball out of the back of the net.
Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Before I put 'Blue Lights' out, I deleted my Instagram and everything and started again.
At fourteen, I started sending out demo tapes.
If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business.
If Michelle Obama had stepped out in an outrageously priced jacket by an Italian designer, heads would have rolled. People would have said it was deplorable.
I flew helicopters, and I loved flying helicopters on the East Coast when I did a couple of deployments out to the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf.
Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.
I was 18-years-old hanging out with Mickey Rourke and Johnny Depp at Mickey's club Risk.
It's depressing when you're still around and your albums are out of print.
