I think it's an area that one writes from that is curious because it is not a clearly defined partisan one.
Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
In everything the middle road is best.
My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'
It was a place without a single feature of the space-time matrix that he knew. It was a place where nothing yet had happened - an utter emptiness. There was neither light nor dark: there was nothing here but emptiness.
There's always a fine line that divides hostility from neutrality, and I don't want to pass that line.
The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world....There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.
We didn't build our bridges simply to avoid walking on water. Nothing so obvious. A bridge is a meeting place. A neutral place. A casual place. Enemies will choose to meet on a bridge and end their quarrel in that void... For lovers, a bridge is a possibility, a metaphor of their chances. And for the traffic in whispered goods, where else but a bridge in the night?
We needed to find some options for moving to neutral ground. I was tasked with doing that.
It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.
We are rivals but are not necessarily on opposite sides of the table.
Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.
I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
Music gave me that neutral lane to relate with everyone.
I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be.
Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.
