Every time they have tried to cut appropriations, they get a wakeup call.

Falling on your face, at the very least, is a forward movement.

Public Broadcasting System an entity designed to create an informed citizenry rather than to deliver consumers to advertisers.

The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.

The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias.

I am here not to save money but to make more of it.

Annabeth frowned. "Percy's sword is a

No matter what there always seems to be something clouding my existence, nothing is ever clear.

Well, once I fried tofu and put Sriracha on it. After that I was so depressed I swore off preparing food for myself altogether.

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

Precision about language can be really, really annoying. It can make you miss the point of what the other person is saying altogether.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

If there's no world 'out there' what are you reacting to? Ask yourself that question every moment of every day when your peace is disturbed.

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-

When you start really respecting yourself, those you love, and your money, the result is that you start having control over your money. What follows from that is control over your life.