Artists are interpreters for us of richness and meaning. Artists can reinforce a healthy sense of God's grandeur and nearness.

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy - "A republic," replied the Doctor, "if you can keep it."

There is not wrong, there is no right, and I will sleep very well tonight.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?

Football is my guilty pleasure.

The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk heap of history.

I'm an outsider. I will always be an outsider.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.