It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
The way to make the world a better place, through your eating, is simply to eat a bit less meat. Local is sometimes good, sometimes bad. But even when it's good, its environmental impact is relatively small compared to other possible improvements.
In ancient Greece, Socrates reportedly didn't fancy a literate society. He felt that people would lose the capacity to think for themselves, simply adopting the perspective of a handy written opinion, and that they would cease to remember what could be written down.
I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.
Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.
Surveys often show people would prefer a detached house with a lawn and driveway to an apartment. I understand this. It's not my place to presume to tell people where they can live. But perhaps that dream will simply not be possible in the future.
We remain of the view that the Fed's near-term objective is simply to support the stock market until consumer and business sentiment improves,
We're sliding toward the danger that the reforms simply create a permanent organization for the unemployed.
We're going to go into the game and simply play Denver Broncos football, and that's how it's been all season long.
We've recruited a very professional team and it's simply a sign of maturity of our organization that we want the professionals whose careers are at stake in making this thing work properly,