I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

I had come to a place where I was meant to be. I don't mean anything so prosaic as a sense of coming home. This was different, very different. It was like arriving at a place much safer than home.

The mind is an intricate mechanism that can be run on the fuels of both victory and defeatism.

Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

The only way I could endure being a coward was if I was the only one who knew it.

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.

I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.

I cannot express how lordly and transfigured I felt at that moment. I was a prince of that harbor, a porpoise king - slim among the buoys and the water traffic.

He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

I acted like Cary Grant for so long that I became Cary Grant

Tolerance is the virtue of those who don't believe anything.

We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit.

It was a lot of fun doing the Nike commercials, too.

So many nurses had turned into emotionally disturbed handmaidens of the war, in their yellow-and-crimson uniforms with bone buttons.

The landlord's laugh was ready chorus.

It's important for me to show my children the richness of life and be a role model. I find that my organizational and management skills are tested more at home than at work!