I stepped on a land mine named Jayson Blair.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With the power of God, we can scale any wall.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Love hard when there is love to be had.

Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.

Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more!