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Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
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I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.
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Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he's seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don't even know what to call. And girls are going through puberty much earlier; and kids are allergic to just about everything, and asthma is out of control. Everyone knows it's our foods... Kids today are the first generation to grow up on this stuff...
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I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.
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The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
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I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.
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It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
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It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity.
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If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace.
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I mean, Jane Wyman did a lot of silly parts for years and then all of a sudden went serious and was tremendous.
