One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most... →
Steven Pinker
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good... →
I like ice hockey. No one is ever going to ask me to write about that as a metaphor for life.
You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of... →
When I was a kid, there was unhappiness in my family - was dealt with partly by escaping to television. And from a very early age, for whatever... →
Robert Pinsky
What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all... →
Danny Pintauro
It wasn't until I could get out of Stanford that I could sit down and think about my life, to do the things that most kids do, which is to ask... →
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
Harold Pinter
One's life has many compartments.
There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere... →