Pastoral Resources

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

A discrete series is a series of terms each of which is empirically derived, each one of which is empirically true. And this is the reason for the fragmentary character of those poems.

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

Through the years I've been getting better and better and better, and it's what you learn though the seasons.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.'

I think film likes me better than the theatre does for some reason.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.