George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
unique special
I've found that my first drafts are not so special. But the more I work on them, the better they get. They are more unique and defensible.
grandmother flirting lunch
I have lunch, flirt with some local grandmothers, undercut my flirting by crotching myself on the corner of a table as I leave. -- "The Great Divider
agree left
At times, they're so Right and I'm so Left, we agree.
empathy feelings guilt
Anyone can be shamed, but feeling guilt requires empathy within.
birthday drama rain
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
art life-is-short long
The bottom line for me is that life is short and art is long.
funny-love two
What once were two, are one
graduation falling-in-love kindness
Do all the other things, the ambitious things-travel, get rich, get famous, innovate, lead, fall in love, make and lose fortunes...but as you do, to the extent that you can, err in the direction of kindness.
graduation kindness mountain
Sucess is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness.
Equality has always been extant but some of us just didn't know it.
parks broke agree
Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.
victory steps remember
Every step was a victory. He had to remember that.
impossible-things desire rising
It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.
giving political belief
All of this strife on the political front might just be the death throes of another set of [less-honorable] American beliefs, that have, at their core, the notion that equality is something the privileged group "gives" to those not so privileged - a reaching down, as it were.