It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

In the cellars of the night, when the mind starts moving around old trunks of bad times, the pain of this and the same of that, the memory of a small boldness is a hand to hold.

To be capable of embarrassment is the beginning of moral consciousness. Honor grows from qualms.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?

When stumbling blocks can become stepping stones, then these stones that the builders reject can equally become chief corner stones!

Life is for the loved, not the lonely." She lamented. "Although it's the lonely who try to make the world and its inhabitants less so.

I always go to my mom's house for Christmas.

Happiness isn't a fortune in a cookie. It's deeper, wider, funnier, and more transporting than that.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Meeting another human is always a sacred event.

If God called us to a task, He will then qualify us for the job.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

Folly ends where genuine hope begins.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.