People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Southern political personalities, like sweet corn, travel badly. They lose flavor with every hundred yards away from the patch. By the time they reach New York, they are like Golden Bantam that has been trucked up from Texas - stale and unprofitable. The consumer forgets that the corn tastes different where it grows.
Everyone always says, 'When you look at a boy band, one of them has to be gay.' No, they don't.
The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not.
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
