If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good.

Men are failures, not because they are stupid, but because they are not sufficiently impassioned.

All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

Memories are like Diamonds. They are precious and and wonderful things. Cherish each one.

This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

We can plan a roadtrip or a workday down to the last detail but the unexpected will always arise. If we are not malleable, we will get left behind.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby, and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house, and I burst with happiness. And in their minds, they were in this terrible domestic rut

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

As long as I keep enjoying my golf, then hopefully I'll be able to play well.

Getting even is one reason for writing.