No course was open to me save to leap, with eyes self-bound, into the yawning abyss of the future.

A fish might more easily live on the apex of a rock than a man accustomed to crime live a life of virtue. (“The Story of Prince Barkiarokh”)

He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself.

The only man who can change his mind is the man who's got one.

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

Jesus wept, but He never complained.

The problem is not just affirmative action, though. The problem is poor people, working people and their children, and affirmative action for the most part doesn't even apply to them.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

One of the richest countries in the history of the world having communities where people have to go over half an hour to get to fresh produce and food is unacceptable.

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.