A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.

The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.

I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.

In God we trust; all others pay cash.

Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.

I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.

Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.

Manhattan cabs are born old.

...awkward passion is so often so very much more admirable than mere achievement.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Start to laugh and everything will go well.

I think this takes a lot of courage and integrity to find your own voice and way to express not only your story, but the reality you are setting it within.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.

Part of me feels you can't say you were truly in love if it didn't last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that's when I'll know it's real - because it lasted.