“It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think t...” — Charles Murray Quote

It's great if someone has a road-to-Damascus experience, but I think that deep and lasting faith is a lifetime project, and includes a lot of homework.

I think that a great deal of what made America special is lost beyond recall, and I don't have any good policy ideas that I am at all confident will go very far in bringing that back.

My professional background consisted of evaluating specific programs the government was sponsoring in education or social services or, when I was in Thailand, rural development.

More humility, in terms of recognizing our luck, and more realism, in understanding at a deep level that being smart doesn't make you good, doesn't make you valuable, doesn't make you wise.

I missed a few key basketball games, AAU games, because I didn't finish my homework.

For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.

For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it but, if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.