#tone

If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire. ↗

— Edmund White

#america #contemporary #defensive #desire #did

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#always #any #attention #attract #because

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. ↗

— George Will

#back #could #freedom #i #innocence

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. ↗

— Jayson Williams

#isolated #know #like #me #polished

Do you think God gets stoned? I think so... look at the platypus. ↗

— Robin Williams

#god #i #i think #look #platypus

For every SF reader of that period, Robert A. Heinlein was also a touchstone. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#every #period #reader #robert #sf