The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.

Philosophically, I am a logical empiricist and materialist, and I am a veteran of over 400 radio and TV interviews and debates. I am a Christ-myth advocate and am pursuing research into how Christianity could...

The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn’t discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible....

The Air Loom, if Matthews revealed its existence under questioning, would now be recognised immediately as a classic paranoid delusion. But in 1797 it was something that had never been encountered before, and would emerge...

Courage, kindness and a great determination to succeed in life with a smile were hallmarks of my wonderful wife. And why her story deserves to be told.

For when I trace back the years I have liv’d, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer’d Work Of Nature my life has been. If I were now to inscribe my...

I looked around at the rooms that I did not see as rooms but more as a landscape for my emotions, a biography of memory.

Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for their flaws as well as their attributes. Turn to them for their strengths,...

Enfim, por alguma razão se fazem as guerras, respondeu o avô, levantando as sobrancelhas. Só nas guerras é que os homens podem matar-se uns aos outros sem serem castigados.

Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want.

Tout est question d’équilibre

Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews’ mental world: this is gibberish and nothing more.

Everyone loves Bollywood movies and crazy about to hear/read breaking news and the upcoming movies information and for that they can go through out the websites portals or by any other written material. Then Filmbees...

We had a teacher called Fanny Menlove, and I remember once when she was out of the room Nancy went up to the blackboard and wrote it backward – Menlove Fanny – and we all...

Maybe he’d never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard; one of the tricks of my trade was the ability to...

144461I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn’t also have to do with connection. We want to be noticed, we want to be good enough, we want friends, and we want...

My life story is too long to tweet. Too long by two characters—and by characters I don’t mean Dora J. Arod and Dark Jar Tin Zoo.

In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known completely, nor would we want to know every fact about an...

If loving the written word is wrong…I don’t want to be right!

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind...

… Whereas Hunt recommended universal charity, Keats, feeling himself ‘in a Mist’, relied on a knowing passivity: ‘Men should bear with each other – there lives not the Man who may not be cut up,...

The phone rang. It was a familiar voice.It was Alan Greenspan. Paul O’Neill had tried to stay in touch with people who had served under Gerald Ford, and he’d been reasonably conscientious about it. Alan...

The truth was loose: I was the son of a son of a bitch, an ancestral prodigy born to clobber my way through loathsome dungheaps of idiot labor. My genes were cocked and loaded. I...

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living’: so too with the biography of that self. And just as lives don’t stay still, so life-writing can’t be fixed and finalised....

If my clone writes my biography, is it really an autobiography?

I’ve seen so much and lived it all. I wanted to bite the earth and taste it. It is both bitter and sweet, and if I had my time to live over again, I wouldn’t change...

If you’re alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.

To look back before 1800 is to enter another world, one where the number of institutions for the mad was a tiny fraction of today’s and what we would now call mental disorders were often...

The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of animal carcasses, which arrived under the market by a specially built railway before...

The biography of a writer – or even the autobiography – will always have this incompleteness.

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world.

They all laughed when I said I’d become a comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now.

I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood ‘above the world’ in an environment comparable to Olympius, legendary mount of the gods, but that alone can never...

For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine’s story is, surprisingly, little known today.

Time is going really faster than you think. That second just passed now, get up, pack the bag, get lost…

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history… It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate...

Asked about the fact that Apple’s iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, ‘It’s like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.

Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by ’82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for. So the space on the left of the entrance was to be the...

Detta är en sann historia- men ändå inte helt sanningsenlig.I verkligheten var allt mycket värre…

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he’d never lived.

What use is there for a biography of myself? I’m just a movie actor.

There began to appear before my romantic eyes…a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape.

I did not realize at the time, as I have discovered since, that anyone who attempts any thing original in this world must expect a bit of ridicule.” Clarence Birdseye

It’s the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

… Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate.

Love is a fine mingling of holding on and letting go.

Flint, Michigan. Detroit as seen backwards through a telescope. The callus on the palm of the state shaped like a welder’s mitt. A town where 66.5 percent of the working citizenship are in some way,...

Kill the body and the head will die.

Fenway: A Biography in Words and Pictures,