If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.

The fullness ends when we give Nature her ransom, when we make children for her. Then she is through with us, and we become, first inside, and then outside, junk. Flower stalks.

The difficulty with humorists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don’t—whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.

They’ve not forgotten him: worse, they never heard of him.

I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child.

Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

My gift to you will be to take away your freedom of choice for a while. Freedom can be very unhealthy and unproductive. Instead, you'll have freedom from choice.

I don't think our pro offense would work at the college level.

The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe.

I have a few obsessions in life, and one is shoes!

One must be careful with words. Words turn probabilities into facts and by sheer force of definition translate tendencies into habits.

If you can take pride in what you're doing on defense, it's going to be pretty hard for that offensive opponent to go by you or make a shot over you.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.