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
truth-is
I'd just say that truth is power and vice versa.
nice writing feelings
There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.
art real black
Now I began to understand art as a kind of black box the reader enters. He enters in one state of mind and exits in another. The writer gets no points just because what's inside the box bears some linear resemblance to "real life" -- he can put whatever he wants in there. What's important is that something undeniable and nontrivial happens to the reader between entry and exit.
firsts speak
...smile first, then speak.
real superpower
Whatever happens, we can deal with it if we admit that it's happening and so on. So to be comfortable with what is - that is a real superpower.
writing used happens
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
kind form should
I understand what something short should be like. I understand beauty in that form. If I start extending, somehow I kind of lose my bearings.
realization consciousness states
So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.
book turns
I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.
nice thinking two
George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover] 'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really - different strokes for different folks.
successful want being-successful
I want to be successful, not famous.
travel pay-the-price car
But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
fall suits-you worry
Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.
country kings self-esteem
It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.