He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

We spend too much time recruiting and not enough time working with the players we have.

I have 40-something intros [that Davis Jr. did]; all are different, none of them happened. And it was hilarious.

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

I hope, or I could not live.

I think the vast majority of Americans would have supported military action to stop the second plane from hitting the World Trade Center, if that had been possible. I would have been among them.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.