All art is a revolt against man's fate.

Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.

There is only one ideal in the world, which is, the light of knowledge – the light of truth.

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters...You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

I am a rubbish flirt.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

The pressures having grown up in this business can be really rough. And it is a testament to you that you have remained focused and NOT lost your mind.

You have to teach now - tell a kid how to box out, tell him how to pass, teach him footwork. Players don't understand that anymore.

Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?

I very much hope that when my wife reads my writings so she reads it as if she is a character and not the real one. Sometimes she takes it too personally.