At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.

I never understood people who don't have bookshelves.

The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.

Art has something to do with the arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life

It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury.

He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.

Feelings of apathy as they relate to our relationships often stem from insufficiently paying attention to those around us.

A person with negative thoughts can never see the sunshine ( good things ) and feel the warmth ( happiness ) in their heart..

My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

There has been no warming over 18 years.

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.

There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.

A spiritual Christian should welcome any burden which the Lord brings his way.