I had to dance topless for two years to make cash to pay my bills and save some money. But it was very enlightening, by the way. I'm talking about light from the gutter.
I used to work a lot on food issues and every time somebody predicted that production would be inadequate they got egg on their face a year or two later.
I love to swim. When I jump in the water, I feel like I'm 12 years old again. It's really funny how it does that to me.
I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.
I often went to Catholic mass or Eucharist at the Episcopal church, nourished by the symbol and power of this profound feeding ritual. It never occurred to me how odd it was that women, who have presided over the domain of food and feeding for thousands of years, were historically and routinely barred from presiding over it in a spiritual context. And when the priest held out the host and said, "This is my body, given for you," not once did I recognize that it is women in the act of breastfeeding who most truly embody those words and who are also most excluded from ritually saying them.
Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.
I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.
I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbaninzation, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.
The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.
The other day I went to a tourist information booth and asked, 'Tell me about some of the people who were here last year.
I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.
There's been a sea change in our focus on corporate ethics. We've made more progress in the last three years than the previous 30.
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year.
But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan
Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.
Two thousand years ago, the Holy family had a ramble from Nazareth to Bethlehem - in much the same way as I'm having a ramble from Norwich to Swaffham. Although I'm not comparing myself to Jesus - I don't want to get bogged down in that whole controversy again.
Five or ten years ago, when it was clear the Internet was becoming a mainstream phenomenon, it was equally clear that a lot of people were being left out and could be left behind
What we've gone through in the last several years has caused some people to question 'Can we trust Microsoft?' .
My wife spent a lot of time on what we do from a civic contribution giving perspective, for a number of years, I've really joined her in that. We're focused on issues in the United States, particularly issues with people who have been trapped in neighborhoods in what I might call intergenerational poverty.
Any idea that turns out to be truly great can be harvested for tens of years. On the other hand, if you want to continue to be great, you've got to bet on new things, big, bold bets.
In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.
The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.
