The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

I don't understand people who don't like good production. It drives me crazy. We hear all the time from people read more

I don't understand people who don't like good production. It drives me crazy. We hear all the time from people who prefer the way our first records sounded, but if we had more money and time back then, we would have made them sound better. I always want our albums to sound more polished, as they say. Polished is the point for what we do.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be read more

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, read more

When you're a young couple just trying to survive anyway and then a storm comes and strips you of everything, you don't have much choice but to move on.

Marriage is not just about two loving and committed people. Marriage is a social institution that provides a social good, read more

Marriage is not just about two loving and committed people. Marriage is a social institution that provides a social good, and a public good.

This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more read more

This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more useful rule

In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed read more

In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed in the Library of Congress,

I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise.

I am not concerned that you have fallen / I am concerned that you arise.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.