While the willingness of the ancient Greeks to sacrifice their lives for glory brings tears to my eyes, I cannot ultimately condone the choice of... →
Tim O'Reilly
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really... →
P. J. O'Rourke
There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from... →
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are... →
Joyce Carol Oates
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of people's lives when... →
Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
People have libraries at home, they have bookshelves, they have CDs. And they sort of try, people try to bring great artists into their lives, into... →
My grandmother could never have written a memoir, so 'The Gravedigger's Daughter' is a homage to her life, and to the lives of other... →
Thousands of civilians have lost their lives to terrorist attacks inside Pakistan, and thousands more will - because, unlike the Pakistani... →
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all... →
Barack Obama