If you ever wanted to know how good life could be

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

The Chinese in this country aren't asking for integration.

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

I've been reading an Alabama newspaper that one man shot another man because he beat him in a Bible-quoting competition.