Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection

Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.

What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the mind, while neuroscience laid down the most elegant rules of the brain.

Even if you are perfect the World isn't.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job- not a calling.

A word meant something only between people, and life’s meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.

People often ask if it was calling. My answer always is yes.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words.

Fasten your belts and sharpen your arrows, we're going for a hunt! I'm single again!

His face looked almost as gray as his suit, and the pouches beneath his eyes looked like little bags for holding all the sadness that his head couldn't hold.

I rocketed a commanding finger to the heavens and it rained stardust upon our young heads.

we all are right and wrong at the same time according to our view.

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Tis sweet to listen as the night winds creep From leaf to leaf.

To be able to play baseball for those nine innings in front of a major league crowd is a special privilege.

I can't draw a stick person. I can't play a musical instrument. But I've always had a knack for making money.