Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

I always had good students.

The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater the goodness in comforting you during the time of the trial and in the exaltation after the combat.

Pain is not there to hurt you, but it is there to make you more aware and alert.

The journey back is always longer than the forward run.

You can greet even the dullest acquaintance with pleasure, if you have forgotten their dreary story.

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Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.

That's where the conflict starts. We all want for a wife a combination Sunday school teacher and a $500-a-night hooker.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.