Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.

I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.

My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.

And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

Job training empowers people to realize their dreams and improve their lives.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

There are many things I’ve written that I didn’t really understand until a long time later.

While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

No man ever sailed over exactly the same route that another sailed over before him; every man who starts on the ocean of life arches his sails to an untried breeze.

What I love most about achieving whatever Ive achieved is that the Seattle Seahawks follow me on Twitter!

He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.

Let us have wine and woman mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]

In New England, farmers say, "If you don't like the weather, wait a minute!" Meaning, of course, that New England weather is constantly changing. This is like the brain and its mind.

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.

The best form in which to worship God is every form.

Governor Pence said, inarguably, Vladimir Putin is a better leader than President Obama.

The film is better for me than the sitcom. But the sitcom is like much more practical approach, if I may say that, because of the cost. Everything costs money, a lot of people don't realize that.