The standard publishing contract is replete with clauses that strip authors of control over their books.
But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.
Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
In Vietnam, we took a hill and defeated the enemy; then we retreated and let the enemy take over.
Over a period of 20 years, German reunification has cost 2 trillion euros, or an average of 100 billion euros a year. So, we have to ask ourselves: Aren't we willing to pay a tenth of that over several years for Europe's unity?
I had supported Governor George W. Bush over Senator John McCain in the 2000 Rhode Island presidential primary.
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.
The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years.
I ain't never going to apologize for a 21-point win over a state rival, ever.
At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
If there's a photo of a roomful of kids I'm the one with the biggest smile or my hand over my face.
People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.
In a game, I'm locked in. I maybe notice three rows in the stands the arena over, and that's it.
A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.
Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI. They realized they couldn't beat us.
I was quite bowled over by Isabel Wilkerson's masterly saga, 'The Warmth of Other Suns.'
If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
