I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

Frankly, no newspaper is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators.

I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.

Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

It's a lovely tribute and fun to read.

...lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.

Bardur and the boy had leaned back a bit and looked at the sparkling sky that makes us humble and powerful at once and seems sometimes to speak to us. What is says carefully cleanses old wounds.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear

I'm screaming at the top of my voice

If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public.

You have to go where the book leads you.