Ambition Like A Liquid Ruby Stains.

A Sentence Has Meaning In The Sense That A Train Has A Track, Not That A Train Has A Passenger.

Dictators During The Entire History Of This Planet Have Used Similar Techniques. By Not Letting The People Of Their Country Know What Conditions Existed Outside Their Boundaries, They Could Get The People To Fight To Stay In Those Conditions. It Was The Old Adage: Convince A Slave That He's Free , And He Will Fight To Maintain His Slavery .

Linguistics Is Very Much A Science. It's A Human Science, One Of The Human Sciences. And It's One Of The More Interesting Human Sciences.

Babes, I Am So Bored Here That I Don't Think, Since I've Come, I've Ever Been More Than Three Minutes Away From Some Really Astonishing Act Of Violence.

In A Very Real Way, One Writes A Story To Find Out What Happens In It. Before It Is Written It Sits In The Mind Like A Piece Of Overheard Gossip Or A Bit Of Intriguing Tattle. The Story Process Is Like Taking Up Such A Piece Of Gossip, Hunting Down The People Actually Involved, Questioning Them, Finding Out What Really Occurred, And Visiting Pertinent Locations. As With Gossip, You Can't Be Too Surprised If Important Things Turn Up That Were Left Out Of The First-heard Version Entirely; Or If Points Initially Made Much Of Turn Out To Have Been Distorted, Or Simply Not To Have Happened At All.