Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.

If arrogance is the heady wine of youth, then humility must be its eternal hangover.

Eighty's a landmark and people treat you differently than they do when you're seventy-nine. At seventy-nine, if you drop something it just lies there. At eighty, people pick it up for you.

Emotion seemed more valid than experience, for I had so much of the former and so little of the latter.

Vanity, wounded pride, rejection, self-delusion. I could recite a litany of little pinpricks that finally produce a gaping wound. That's how marriages and friendships come apart.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

When you get to be my age, all your friends have either died or moved to Florida.

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

It's especially fitting that they call a cruise ship 'she,' for she is pregnant with a thousand adult embryos who long to stay forever warm and sheltered in this great white womb.

The rush of power to the head is not as becoming as a new hat

Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.

In these times, God's people must trust him for rest of body and soul.

I love Liverpool. The people are wonderful and I feel very much at home there.

... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Work to make a living; serve to make a life.