Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over the harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

Opportunity plays a big role in having success

For desired conclusions, we ask ourselves, "Can I believe this?", but for unpalatable conclusions we ask, "Must I believe this?

I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

It's such a pleasurable experience to look back, and all of the fun I had just comes rushing back.

All of us should banish hateful communications and practice civility for differences of opinion.

I read on the Internet that I was dead.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

Running is 80 percent mental.

Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.

Golf is social. It brings a lot of people together. And the great thing about a scramble, there's less pressure because you don't feel like every shot has to be your shot.